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
npx skills add wondelai/skills/good-strategy-bad-strategy 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.
Try these with the skill installed
Audit our strategy doc for the four hallmarks of bad strategy using good-strategy-bad-strategy skill
Strategy auditTurn this list of goals into a real strategy kernel using good-strategy-bad-strategy skill
Strategy formulationWrite a one-page kernel for our product: diagnosis, policy, actions using good-strategy-bad-strategy skill
PlanningFind the leverage point and proximate objective for next quarter using good-strategy-bad-strategy skill
PrioritizationInstall Good Strategy Bad Strategy
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