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If you are serious about strategy work, you must always do your own analysis. A strategy is not necessarily what the CEO intended or what some executive says it is. Sometimes they are hiding the truth, sometimes they are misstating it, and sometimes they have taken a position as leader without really knowing the reasons for their company’s success.
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
Richard Rumelt
The North Star Metric measures the total amount of value delivered to the market. It’s an approximation, based on counting how much of the core value that the customers seek (for example messages sent, or insights gained) the company delivers per period. It’s best to measure as close as possible to the value experience, and yet keep the metric simple and understandable.
Evidence-Guided
Itamar Gilad
Anytime you’re building a new system, regardless of how technically complex it might be, testing the value of the idea is the best place to start. If no one wants it, it doesn’t matter how hard or easy it is to build it.
How I Break Down Hypotheses to Make Them Easier to Test
Jeff Gothelf
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