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Strategy

How to make real choices about where a program spends its limited time, money, and attention, instead of just planning.

  1. Good Strategy Bad Strategy

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    Richard Rumelt · book

    the book that finally makes 'strategy' mean something: an honest diagnosis and a hard choice, not a list of goals with budgets attached.

  2. Playing to Win

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    A.G. Lafley & Roger Martin · book

    a simple, repeatable way to answer the only two questions that matter: where will we play, and how will we win there?

  3. A Plan Is Not a Strategy

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    Roger Martin, Harvard Business Review · video

    nine minutes that will change how you sit in your next planning retreat; why a comfortable plan is not a strategy.

  4. Thinking in Bets

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    Annie Duke · book

    how to make good calls under uncertainty and stop judging them only by the outcome; the mindset for decisions you can't take back.

  5. Farnam Street

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    Shane Parrish · site

    a deep well of mental models for thinking better; where to sharpen your judgment when the answer isn't in any manual.

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