Crafting a Living Strategy

Strategy is a word that is bandied about in the halls of enterprises, governments, and academia globally.  It sounds important.  So we include it in our resumes and use it as a talking point in meetings.  Yet, if pressed, most people either misunderstand what strategy is or think strategy crafting is mysterious and confusing.  

Not content with the complexities and intricacies of strategy development, i have thrown in this new term ‘learning strategy.’  To define ‘learning strategy,’ we first need to understand how to build and execute strategy.  Let’s first demystify the concepts of strategy development.