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When Strategy Meets Reality: Orientation. Viability. Advantage.

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The problem with most strategies is that they’re built for a world that doesn’t exist.

When Strategy Meets Reality is for leaders who have followed the established playbook – off-sites, frameworks, cascades – and discovered that the more they plan, the less the organization seems to adapt. Strategy produces documents, not direction.

The truth is that organizations are complex adaptive systems, not machines, which means strategy cannot be designed and then implemented in a linear sequence; it ...