"must be imagined or constructed"

 

"The move from diagnosis to alternatives requires audacity, especially in a gnarly situation ... Alternative actions are not given but must be imagined or constructed. Then you do your very best to choose among the alternatives you have created. Finally, you need to translate the idea into specific and coherent actions. In shaping and evaluating an alternative course of action, we have to make judgments. And to invent a solution, we have to judge, or assume, or believe, certain things to be true.

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This process of diagnosing the challenge and then creating a response is the best theory we have for strategy creation. You analyze the challenge and your resources, and you try to think of ways to surmount the challenge and realize some of your ambitions."

Trechos retirados de "The Crux - How Leaders Become Strategists" de Richard P. Rumelt.