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Does your company have a strategy, or just a document?
Growth has slowed for reasons nobody can quite explain. Decisions seem to follow the competition. Different leaders describe the direction differently. This check asks how often the tells of strategic deficit happen in your company, and how well the organisation senses, prioritises, decides and executes. You answer from experience, not from documents. You leave with the tells that are present, the capability that is weakest, and the conscious-action response to each: the structural change that treats the cause rather than the symptom. Best taken by each member of the leadership team separately, then compared.
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What the check covers
- The tells The six patterns that show up together in a company with no strategy. How often does each happen here?
- Sensing Whether the company notices relevant change in its environment in time to act.
- Prioritising Whether the company can agree what matters most, and hold to it.
- Deciding together Whether ideas and decisions are made across the organisation, or inside its silos.
- Executing Whether the company can mobilise once it has noticed that something should change.
- Sales Whether the sales force is connected to the people who could help it sell. If the company does not sell directly, skip this section.
- The technical dimension How strategic deficit shows up in what engineering builds.