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Direct the discussion to focus on strategic alternatives that management thinks will be at similar risk and return levels. Then ask the team to consider which big move to make.
You could also show different plan scenarios with varying levels of resources and risk. This can help you make real trade-offs instead of all-or-nothing choices.
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Compare your plan to some benchmarks. The chance of a strategy leading to significant performance improvement depends on an analysis of your company's starting endowment, the trends it is riding, and the moves you are planning.
The result is a realistic and concrete future ...
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Private-equity firms have found that more than 30% of decisions are different when opposing possibilities are pitted against each other.
Another de-biasing technique is a pre-mortem, where the team assumes a strategy has failed to achieve its intended objective after a set ...
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After the plan is developed, the detailed assumptions may be forgotten. Few review the underlying assumptions, such as uptake rates, market growth, and inflation rates.
We shouldn't assume that we know the future. Instead, consider what you can do with the information you have today and bui...
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Instead of seeing your strategy meeting as a plan-making exercise, reframe the agenda to focus on making choices.
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Business leaders know well that in a strategy meeting, the goal is to simply approve or reject a proposal put forward without questioning the plan or floating alternative options that can cause distress.
It shouldn't be this way. The key to strategy development is to weigh strategic...
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