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19. Making Strategy Simple

By Patrick Lencioni - December 2019

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19. Making Strategy Simple

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Episode Summary

Your organization’s strategy should be simple and usable. Chris joins Pat and Cody to demystify “strategy”. They share examples of companies who get it right and provide a framework for developing three strategic filters that should provide the context for all decision-making.

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Notes

00:48 — Six Critical Questions every company must answer

01:05 — Question 1: Why do we exist?  One questions every company must answer

01:11 — Question 2: How do we behave? Creating culture and values

01:17 — Question 3: What do we do?

02:02 — Question 4: How will we succeed?

04:12 —  Patrick Lencioni describes how The Table Group boils down strategy to 3 simple things

05:31 — Patrick Lencioni, “A strategy needs to be understandable, memorable, actionable and wise”

06:00 — Chris Jenson on mistakes companies make between strategy and goal setting

06:45 — Patrick Lencioni defines what “empowerment” should mean

09:20 — Patrick Lencioni gives examples of companies that use simple strategies effectively

13:55 — Chris Jenson talk about the difference between customer satisfaction and strategy

15:00 — Cody Thompson talks about the dignity of the human employee

16:28 — Chris Jenson talks about Mixbook.com’s strategic anchors and how they use them

20:40 — Patrick Lencioni explains why most companies are not strategic

21:43 — The Table Group’s strategic anchors and how we use them

27:27 — Patrick Lencioni recommends The Discipline of Market Leaders and defines its importance

28:40 — Product Leadership

29:48  Customer Intimacy

31:48 — Operational Excellence

35:01  Cody Thompson summarizes how you can make strategy simple