Strategy & Growth

Good Strategy Bad Strategy

Strategy kernel: diagnosis, guiding policy, coherent action

Replace goal lists and vision decks with real strategy using Richard Rumelt's Good Strategy Bad Strategy. This skill equips your AI agent with the strategy kernel — honest diagnosis, guiding policy, coherent action — plus detection of the four hallmarks of bad strategy and the sources of power that make strategy work.

Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt

Good Strategy Bad Strategy

by Richard Rumelt

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What your agent learns

The Kernel

Every good strategy has three parts: a diagnosis of the critical challenge, a guiding policy for overcoming it, and coherent actions that carry it out.

Bad Strategy Detection

Spot the four hallmarks: fluff, failure to face the challenge, mistaking goals for strategy, and dog's-dinner objective lists.

Sources of Power

Leverage, proximate objectives, chain-link systems, design, and focus — apply strength where it has the greatest effect.

Riding Waves of Change

Technology shifts and industry transitions redistribute advantage — read the guideposts and exploit incumbents' inertia.

Strategy as Hypothesis

Treat strategy as a testable hypothesis: create-destroy your own ideas, convene a virtual panel of experts, revise on evidence.

Richard Rumelt

UCLA professor emeritus, "the strategist's strategist"

Richard Rumelt is professor emeritus at UCLA Anderson School of Management and one of the world's most influential thinkers on strategy — McKinsey Quarterly dubbed him "the strategist's strategist." He distilled four decades of research and consulting into Good Strategy Bad Strategy and The Crux.

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Try these with the skill installed

Audit our strategy doc for the four hallmarks of bad strategy using good-strategy-bad-strategy skill

Strategy audit

Turn this list of goals into a real strategy kernel using good-strategy-bad-strategy skill

Strategy formulation

Write a one-page kernel for our product: diagnosis, policy, actions using good-strategy-bad-strategy skill

Planning

Find the leverage point and proximate objective for next quarter using good-strategy-bad-strategy skill

Prioritization

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