Sem uma estratégia clara, come on... BSC? (parte VI)

Parte V.
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Julgo que este texto, "So, you think you have a strategy?", encaixa bem na série "Sem uma estratégia clara, come on... BSC?". Por exemplo:

"Are not really making choices Strategy, above all, is about making choices; choices in terms of what you do and what you do not do. ... Most companies don’t concentrate; they cannot resist the temptation of also doing other things that, on an individual basis, look attractive. As a consequence, they end up with a bunch of alternate (sometimes even opposing) strategic directions that appear equally attractive but strangely enough don’t manage to turn into profitable propositions. Too many strategies lack focus.
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Are stuck in the status quo ... companies write up their strategy in such a way that everything fits into what they were already doing anyway. ... Regrettably, more often than not, strategies adapted to what you were doing anyway results in some vague, amorphous marketplace statement that would have been better off in a beginners’ class on esoteric poetry, because it is meaningless and does not imply any real decision about what needs to be done in order to be a vital company in the next one to three years.
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Have no relationship to value creation ... Strategy is not just about making choices; executives need a good explanation why these choices are going to create the company a heck of a lot of value. Without such logic, I cannot call this line of thinking a strategy at all. ... Without a proper rationalisation of why your choices are going to help you create value, it’s not a strategy.
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Are mistaking objectives for strategy We want to be number one or two in all the markets we operate in. Ever heard that one? I think it is bollocks. ... These are goals, possibly very good and lofty ones, but in terms of amounting to a strategy, they do not. You need an actionable idea and a rationale — a strategy — of how you are going to achieve all this. Without a true plan of action, lofty goals are but a tantalising aspiration.
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Keep it a secret The final mistake I have seen, scarily common, as to why CEOs who think they have a strategy don’t actually have one (despite circumventing all of the above pitfalls) is because none of their lower-ranked employees actually know about it. A strategy only becomes a strategy if people in the organisation alter their behaviour as a result of it. And, in order to achieve that, they must know about it."