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For many years, I’ve struggled to use various frameworks for strategic planning and management. I’m not saying I struggled in the sense that I failed to create and implement strategies to achieve success. I was involved in quite a few successful strategies, and, of course, some spectacular failures. My point is I tried many different approaches for formulating, organizing, and implementing strategies, and found most of them lacking in a number of key respects.

“Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous position.”

Sun Tzu (6th century bc)

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© 2014 David Roddick Richards

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Richards, D. (2014). Strategy. In: The Seven Sins of Innovation. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137432537_5

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