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Bad strategy is long on goals and short on policy or action. It assumes that goals are all you need. It puts forward strategic objectives that are incoherent and, sometimes, totally impracticable. It uses high-sounding words and phrases to hide these failings.
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
Richard Rumelt
Yet often, we plan our features and manage our business cycles as if we know exactly what’s going to work. We manage by specifying outputs—what we’ll make. Instead, we need to focus on outcomes: management needs to declare the business outcomes they wish to achieve and then set up their teams to figure out how to get there.
Sense and Respond
Jeff Gothelf, Josh Seiden
Every item on the roadmap should also be tied back to the rationale of why we are doing it and how it will further the business.
Product Operations
Melissa Perri and Denise Tilles
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