The Strategy Trap Newsletter
Kevin ErtellStrategy fails when execution is an afterthought. This newsletter helps leaders close the gap with practical tips, operator insight, and occasionally a little fun.
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Best Buy's strategy just failed. (It hasn't happened yet.)
What if your new strategy already failed?
That’s this week’s opener: a premortem on Best Buy’s new strategy, imagined eighteen months out and picked apart by four people who’d know. From there we make the case for why “priority” never shou...
The Guessing Game Your Team Plays With Your Instructions
An instruction that seems obvious in your head can turn into a lot of guesses once your team has to act on it.
But hey, the machine can come to the rescue! This week I’m diving into how AI can actually help with this if you use it as a mir...
Just Say No
Saying no is easy in theory and brutal in practice.
Most of our hardest decisions aren’t even about right versus wrong. They’re about picking between two things that are both true, both important, and both going to cost something no matter...
The Conventional Business Wisdom Trap
Conventional wisdom deserves an expiration date.
Keeping in the spirit of defying conventional wisdom, I’m wrapping up my six-part Strategy Trap series this week with Part 7 of 6. :-)
This week’s musing examines the assumptions behind how...
The Ivory Tower Trap
Leadership and coaching are not the same skill, and a lot of teams are run by someone who thinks they are.
This issue closes out the series on the six traps nested inside the larger Strategy Trap, and it’s built around the importance of co...
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Straight talk on strategy, leadership, and execution. Retail exec turned speaker/advisor helping companies get unstuck. Ex-Nike. Now at Mistere Advisory.
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