Aggregation Theory
Ben Thompson’s Aggregation Theory.
Good Strategy / Bad Strategy - Rumelt
I believe Rumelt’s Good Strategy/Bad Strategy provides a useful and accessible framework for crafting strategy. Here’s his book, it’s worth reading: Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters.
The kernel of strategy:
- Diagnosis of the challenge
- Guiding Policy to overcome the challenges in the diagnosis
- 7 sources of power: leverage, proximate objectives, chain-link systems, design, focus, growth, advantage, dynamics, and inertia/entropy. Subset of note:
- leverage
- proximate objectives
- chain-link systems - Can we focus on a weak link in the system?
- 7 sources of power: leverage, proximate objectives, chain-link systems, design, focus, growth, advantage, dynamics, and inertia/entropy. Subset of note:
- Coherent Actions to implement the policy
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