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Mitchell S. Muncy

In five-minute, twice-weekly episodes of The Successful Strategist, Mitchell Muncy – a consultant and co-founder or chief executive of five start-ups – cuts through jargon and myth to help you answer the most important questions any organization can ask. For-profit or non-profit, business executive or philanthropist, Fortune 500 or startup, CEO or front-line, listen to develop an engaging and rewarding approach to strategy, management, and governance.

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A 30-second introduction to The Successful Strategist, a podcast on strategy, management, and governance.

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Mitchell Muncy introduces a new service from Prospera LLC, the Strategy Audit, designed for those who want a prompt, affordable, independent, and practical evaluation of their strategic plans and relevant financials.

To learn more, download the summary, visit ProsperaLLC.com/audit, or email us at clients@prosperallc.com.

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Mitchell Muncy, Founder and Principal of Prospera LLC, introduces Season 4 of The Successful Strategist, a podcast on strategy, management, and governance, dedicated to helping you address the most important questions any organization can ask.

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Culture does not eat strategy for breakfast. The fifth and final episode in a series on the definition of strategy.

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  • Defining Strategy: Testing Hypotheses (S3:E23)

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  • Fit, the Fourth Element of Strategy (S1:E14)
  • Real Strategy Development (S1:E16)

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  • Drucker Foundation, Did Peter Drucker Say That?
  • Nicholas Christakis, What Do We Learn from Our Networks?

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Two critical reasons you should think of your strategy as a hypothesis. The fourth episode in a series on the definition of strategy.

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  • Defining Strategy: Making Choices (S3:E22)

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  • Strategy Is Not a Guarantee (S1:E25)
  • Why Strategy: Miracles and Bullseyes (S2:E5)

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Four points to understand about making strategic choices. The third episode in a series on the definition of strategy.

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  • Defining Strategy: Becoming Unique (S3:E21)

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  • Why Strategy: You Already Have a Strategy (S2:E1)
  • Executive Decisions Are Not Strategy (S1:E24)

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  • Roger Martin, Five Questions to Build a Strategy

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Becoming unique is more important than beating the competition. The second episode in a series on the definition of strategy.

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  • Defining Strategy: Solving Problems (S3:E20)

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  • What Is Winning? (S1:E6)
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Three consequences of strategy as a problem-solving activity. The first episode in a series on the definition of strategy.

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  • Strategy Consultants: Five Essential Qualities (S3:E19)

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To celebrate the anniversary of the podcast, I'm giving away a one-year, digital subscription to the Harvard Business Review to one listener selected at random.

To be eligible for selection, you must leave a rating and a review of The Successful Strategist on Apple Podcastsand join my email list – during the month of April.

For step-by-step instructions, please visit ProsperaLLC.com/giveaway.If you already know how to leave ratings and reviews on Apple, please visit ProsperaLLC.com/giveawayafter you've submitted them and proceed to the final step. Don't forget the nickname you used for your review.

I will accept entries until 11:59 pm, Eastern Daylight Time, on Saturday, April 30.

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Four qualities Richard Branson looks for in a consultant, plus one. The ninth and final episode in a series on key roles in strategy development.

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  • Strategy Consultants: What Is the "Outside View"? (S3:E18)

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What do strategy consultants offer? The eighth episode in a series on key roles in strategy development.

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  • Boards and Strategy: Four Ways to Be Constructive (S3:E17)

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  • Bad Is Stronger Than Good (S1:E2)
  • Real Strategy Development (S1:E16)
  • Chief Strategy Officers: Independent Insiders (S3:S13)

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  • Dan Lovallo and Daniel Kahneman, Delusions of Success: How Optimism Undermines Executives' Decisions
  • Daniel Kahneman, et al., Noise: How to Overcome the High, Hidden Cost of Inconsistent Decision Making

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Four ways board members can be independent and constructive at the same time. The seventh episode in a series on key roles in strategy development.

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  • Boards and Strategy: Four Ways to Serve (S3:E16)

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Four ways board members must serve the organization as a whole. The sixth episode in a series on key roles in strategy development.

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  • Boards and Strategy: Three Steps (S3:E15)

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How should CEOs and boards work together on strategy? The fifth episode in a series on key roles in strategy development.

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  • Chief Strategy Officers: Six Roles (S3:E14)

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  • Defining the Problem Is the Problem (S2:E2)
  • Give Me Options (S2:E23)

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  • Roger Martin, Strategy & Boards of Directors
  • Alex Counts, Spotting and Fixing Dysfunctional Nonprofit Boards
  • Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg, What's Your Problem?

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Six ways to think about the chief strategy officer’s role. The fourth episode in a series on key roles in strategy development.

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Previous episode

  • Chief Strategy Officers: Independent Insiders (S3:E13)

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  • Planning Is Not Strategy (S1:E18)
  • Executive Decisions Are Not Strategy (S1:E24)

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  • The Chief Strategy Officer (Harvard Business Review)

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What do chief strategy officers do? The third episode in a series on key roles in strategy development.

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  • The CEO and Strategy: Two Mindsets (S3:E12)

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Is your CEO a restless babysitter or a devoted parent? The second episode in a series on key roles in strategy development.

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Previous episode

  • The CEO and Strategy: Two Temptaions (S3:E11)

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  • Chris Zook, Overview of Founder’s Mentality (video)
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Strategy is the CEO's main job. The first episode in a series on key roles in strategy development.

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  • The Threat of Strategy (S3:E10)

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When is it time to change strategies? The tenth and final episode in a series on threats to good strategy.

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Previous episode

  • The Threat of Impatience (S3:E9)

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  • Roger Martin, What End of Advantage?

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Innovation requires continuity. The ninth in a series of episodes on threats to good strategy.

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  • The Threat of Confusion (S3:E8)

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  • Wikipedia entry on Continental Lite

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Three reasons others may be confused about your strategy. The eighth in a series of episodes on threats to good strategy.

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  • The Threat of the Best and the Good (S3:E7)

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  • The Meaning Test (S2:E8)
  • What Are You Talking About? (S2:E24)

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  • Richard Rumelt, The Perils of Bad Strategy
  • Roger Martin, Strategic Choice Chartering

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Being the best is impossible, but you can't succeed being good. The seventh in a series of episodes on threats to good strategy.

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  • The Threat of Information (S3:E6)

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Information can't do your thinking for you. The sixth in a series of episodes on threats to good strategy.

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  • The Threat of Easy Questions (S3:E5)

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Does your strategy answer the right question – or the easy question? The fifth in a series of episodes on threats to good strategy.

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  • The Threat of Storytelling (S3:E4)

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Stories can inspire us to succeed – or drive us off a cliff. The fourth in a series of episodes on threats to good strategy.

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Previous episode

  • The Threat of Growth (S3:E3)

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  • Miracles and Bullseyes (S2:E5)
  • Fit, the Fourth Element of Strategy (S1:E14)

Other resources

  • Dan Lovallo & Daniel Kahneman, Delusions of Success
  • Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow (Talks at Google)

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Are you getting stronger – or just bigger? The third in a series of episodes on threats to good strategy.

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  • The Threat of Best Practices (S3:E2)

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Best practices are best – until they're not. The second in a series of episodes on threats to good strategy.

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  • The Threat of Consensus (S3:E1)

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How can consensus be a "threat"? Don't we need it to get things done? The first in a series of episodes on threats to good strategy.

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  • Failure Is an Option (S2:E26)

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  • Wikipedia entry on the Voting Paradox (Condorcet's Paradox)
  • Wikipedia entry on the Abilene Paradox
  • Nassim Taleb, The Dictatorship of the Small Minority

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Mitchell Muncy, Founder and Principal of Prospera LLC, introduces Season 3 of The Successful Strategist, a podcast on strategy, management, and governance, dedicated to helping you address the most important questions any organization can ask.

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A strategic plan that can't fail also can't succeed. The eighth and final episode in a series on the elements of a strategic plan.

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  • Order Up (S2:E25)

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Is our "strategic plan" really a jumbled to-do list? The seventh episode in a series on the elements of a strategic plan.

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  • What Are You Talking About? (S2:E24)

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No strategy can succeed unless everyone understands it in the same way. The sixth episode in a series on the elements of a strategic plan.

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  • Give Me Options (S2:E23)

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If we haven’t evaluated three alternatives, we haven’t even evaluated one. The fifth episode in a series on the elements of a strategic plan.

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  • We're Not Alone (S2:E22)

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Does our strategic plan treat our organization like it’s the only one in the world? The fourth episode in a series on the elements of a strategic plan.

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  • What's the Problem? (S2:E21)

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Most strategic plans don’t state the problem they're trying to solve. The third episode in a series on the elements of a strategic plan.

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  • What Makes a Plan "Strategic"? (S2:E20)

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Most “strategic plans” don't present a strategy. The second episode in a series on the elements of a strategic plan.

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  • What Is a Plan? (S2:E19)

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Most “strategic plans” aren't really plans at all. The first episode in a series on the elements of a strategic plan.

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  • The Secret Question (S2:E17)

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We can't build a unique organization by thinking like everyone else. The seventh and final episode in a series on questions we should ask to develop a winning strategy.

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  • The Durability Question (S2:E17)

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Why is it better to be the "last mover" than the "first mover"? The sixth episode in a series on questions we should ask to develop a winning strategy.

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  • The Distribution Question (S2:E16)

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Non-profit or for-profit, if distribution isn’t built into our strategy, we don’t have a strategy. The fifth episode in a series on questions we should ask to develop a winning strategy.

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  • The People Question (S2:E15)

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If our organization is truly distinctive, our hiring should be as well. The fourth episode in a series on questions we should ask to develop a winning strategy.

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  • The Monopoly Question (S2:E14)

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A winning strategy will help us capture a big part of a small market. The third episode in a series on questions we should ask to develop a winning strategy.

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  • The Timing Question (S2:E13)

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A winning strategy helps us choose the right time – and the right timeline – for our business or nonprofit. The second episode in a series on questions we should ask to develop a winning strategy.

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Our goal should be to offer a solution or program 10 times better than anything currently available. The first episode in a series on questions we should ask to develop a winning strategy.

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If we don't say "no" most of the time to appealing opportunities, we don't have a strategy. The sixth and final episode in a series on basic tests of our strategy.

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If our activities don't reinforce each other, we don't have a strategy. The fifth episode in a series on basic tests of our strategy.

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A real strategy commits us to specific activities and ways of measuring our progress. The fourth episode in a series on basic tests of our strategy.

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If we don't define our terms, we don't have a strategy. The third episode in a series on basic tests of our strategy.

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Does the opposite of our strategy sound stupid? The second episode in a series on basic tests of our strategy.

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Either we have one strategy only, or we don't have a strategy at all. The first episode in a series on basic tests of our strategy.

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Without a strategy, we can't spot weaknesses in advance or usefully evaluate our results. The fifth and final episode in a series on why we need a strategy.

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Non-profits and for-profits alike often compete against themselves. The fourth episode in a series on why we need a strategy.

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Real strategy development requires evaluating viable but imperfect alternatives. The third episode in a series on why we need a strategy.

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We need a strategy even to know what problem we're trying to solve. The second episode in a series on why we need a strategy.

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Since strategy is unavoidable, we should make it explicit and thoughtful. The first episode in a series on why we need a strategy.

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Mitchell Muncy, Founder and Principal of Prospera LLC, introduces Season 2 of The Successful Strategist, a podcast on strategy, management, and governance, dedicated to helping you address the most important questions any organization can ask.

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It's damaging to demand proof in advance that a strategy will succeed. The eighth and final episode in a series on common misunderstandings of strategy.

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Strategy affects the whole organization, but not everything that affects the whole organization is strategy. The seventh episode in a series on common misunderstandings of strategy.

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Cost-control and revenue projections can’t tell us what will make our organization unique. The sixth episode in a series on common misunderstandings of strategy.

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Organizations often behave as though strategy can be reduced to revenue-producing functions. The fifth episode in a series on common misunderstandings of strategy.

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Our business model, on its own, can't make us unique or prevent blindness to our challenges. The fourth episode in a series on common misunderstandings of strategy.

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On their own, your mission and goals don't have any of the essential elements of strategy. The third episode in a series on common misunderstandings of strategy.

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Excellence in individual activities can't deliver the essential elements – or the results – of strategy. The second episode in a series on common misunderstandings of strategy.

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If we treat strategy and planning as the same thing, we won't get the benefit of either. The first episode in a series on common misunderstandings of strategy.

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Treating strategy as one among a number of functions defeats the purpose of having a strategy.

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Developing a strategy that has all the elements requires three commitments.

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The longest way around may be the shortest way home.

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We need to see our organization as a whole if we want to make it unique.

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More organizations die of indigestion than starvation.

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If your organization shut down today, would your customers or beneficiaries suffer any real loss?

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What does it mean to make choices, and why do many organizations fail to do so?

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Strategy requires creativity and analysis. What's the most important question we can ask to get the full benefit of both?

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Where are the true barriers to an organization's success, and what kind of barriers are they?

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Why is the conventional distinction between strategy and execution false and harmful?

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Good strategy isn't built on consensus. Organizations must "coordinate" disagreement.

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How can organizations define success in a way that gives them a chance to succeed?

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Organizations can’t succeed on strengths alone. How can we identify a genuine advantage?

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How can for-profits and non-profits identify real needs, yet be largely mistaken about the demand for their solutions? Four reasons.

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Assessing opportunity cost in advance can seem impossible. Nevertheless, it's critical. Three practical questions will get you started.

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Bad is stronger than good – almost always and everywhere. Why does this turn out to be good news for strategy development?

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Most strategies are “pious statements of the obvious presented as if they were decisive insights,” but strategy is more than just a buzzword – and it's unavoidable.

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Mitchell Muncy, Founder and Principal of Prospera LLC, introduces The Successful Strategist, a podcast on strategy, management, and governance, dedicated to helping you address the most important questions any organization can ask.

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