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Moving From Execution To Strategy

December 02, 2019 00:49:51 48.68 MB Downloads: 0

Are you ready to move from execution to strategy?

Talking Points

  • How to get out of execution when you get stuck
  • 3 layers of strategy
  • What would cause someone to want to move from execution to strategy
  • When the client suggests features that won’t work
  • How to sell and price strategy
  • Opportunity cost
  • Separating clients who are interested in strategy from those who aren’t
  • Why people in the strategy space are needed
  • Developing the language to get more strategy clients
  • If you’re an authority, you’re likely to attract a lot of people who want your advice, opinions, and plans
  • It’s more difficult to be an authority if you’re all about execution
  • Whether or not you have to keep consulting
  • Why you don’t need to know 100%

Quotable Quotes

“There is an execution piece and there is a strategy piece, and you can think about any place along that curve, you can set your business.” –RM

“Strategy is probably one of the most misused words that I get questions about.” –JS

“Don’t pretend you’re doing strategy when that’s not what you were hired for.” –JS

“I’m going to argue that we have a real need right now for people in the strategy space.” –RM