3. Avoid “Bad Strategy” Traps 🚫 - Deepstash

3. Avoid “Bad Strategy” Traps 🚫

Rumelt outlines common patterns of bad strategy:

✔️ Fluff – Buzzwords without substance.

✔️ Failure to face the problem – Avoiding harsh truths.

✔️ Mistaking goals for strategy – Setting targets without a game plan.

✔️ Lack of focus – Trying to pursue too many things at once

💡 Clarity is the enemy of bad strategy—don’t mask confusion with ambition.

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Richard Rumelt pulls back the curtain on what separates vague wishful thinking from powerful, focused strategy—and how to craft plans that truly move the needle.

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