More from Good Strategy, Bad Strategy: > the kernel of a good strategy contains three elements: a diagnosis, a guiding policy, and coherent action. A clear di

More from Good Strategy, Bad Strategy: > the kernel of a good strategy contains three elements: a diagnosis, a guiding policy, and coherent action. A clear diagnosis is hard. It can take hours or even days of iterating on a single sentence and seeking feedback and continuing to iterate before you've accurate diagnosed the problem and found a way to clearly communicate it. Strategy is hard because taking days to write a single sentence just _feels_ like a waste. But if that single sentence makes it so dozens of people better understand what you are doing it is 100% worth it.