Key Findings
- 1A practitioner's guide to the strategy frameworks worth using — and the ones that belong in the bin.
Overview
The strategy consulting industry has produced hundreds of frameworks. Most are academic exercises that look impressive on slides but fail to produce actionable insight. Here are the ones that actually work in practice.
"Here are the ones that actually work in practice."
Organisations with top-quartile leadership scores generate 2.8x more innovation revenue and retain talent 58% longer.
Leadership quality has become the strongest predictor of enterprise value creation.
Worth Your Time
1. **Playing to Win (Lafley/Martin).** Five cascading choices: winning aspiration, where to play, how to win, core capabilities, and management systems. Its power is in forcing specificity — you can't answer these questions vaguely.
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