Field note 09 · Tuesday, October 20
Your strategy is already visible.
Open last quarter’s budget. Look at your last five hires. Read the agendas of your last three leadership meetings. Ask who can spend money without asking anyone first.
Those four records show where your people, money, and attention went. When they disagree with the strategy deck, the records are usually right.
My forthcoming book, Strategy Is the Making, treats strategy as two crafts: making the choices and trade-offs, and making the conditions in which people can make them well.
The question
Which record would surprise your leadership team most?