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This section of the book explores a number of fundamental sources of power used in good strategies: leverage, proximate objectives, chain-link systems, design, focus, growth, advantage, dynamics, inertia, and entropy. Obviously, this set is not exhaustive.
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
Richard Rumelt
But if you want to change behavior, your metric must be tied to the behavioral change you want. If you measure something and it’s not attached to a goal, in turn changing your behavior, you’re wasting your time. Worse, you may be lying to yourself and fooling yourself into believing that everything is OK. That’s no way to succeed.
Lean Analytics
Alistair Croll, Benjamin Yoskovitz
Many companies have invested in “transformation,” all claiming to use OKR, of course. But instead of using these investments as a way to become more outcome-driven, most organizations focus on [meeting due dates rather than outcomes](https://members.outcomeedge.com/i/143301848/you-are-also-dealing-with-weak-muscles).
Often the goal is simply to do something like “move to the cloud by the end of the year.” It doesn’t matter if this project made a difference or not, only that it was completed on time.
Treat Your Company as a Product
Felipe Castro
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