Tuesday, 5 March 2013

Strategic accidents


Just travelled back from a meeting that had strategic issues at the centre of the debate. And I could see that very often strategy design is just based on coincidences, on facts that happen at the same time and are taken as indications of the way to follow. Strange! I ended up by calling that “strategizing by accident”.

And also came to the conclusion that in politics that’s often the case. You “build a strategy” on facts that are happening and that you never thought of. Politicians just ride the wave and call that “strategy”.  

No comments: