The Principle of Strategy — Part 2: A Worksheet for Strategic Thinking

Format: PDF
Page Count: 2 (Not Including Cover)

Strategy, plan, and action are three different jobs, and most people collapse them into one. Part 2 sorts out the confusion. One teaching page separating strategy, plan, and action into three distinct jobs, then four questions that check whether the distinction actually landed — including one that turns it on something you're working on right now.

WHAT YOU'LL WORK THROUGH

The teaching page — The Foundation

• The Strategic Plan of Action, defined

• The dependency chain

• The three keys, side by side

• Discovery, Development, Doing

FORMAT

• 8.5in × 11in, US Letter — prints on standard paper

• Print-ready PDF, designed for handwriting

• Part 2 of the Learning to Develop Powerful Strategies series

WHO IT'S FOR

Leaders, founders, ministry and nonprofit teams, and anyone who keeps busy without moving — the classic symptom of a how running without a why underneath it. Also works well for team sessions, where the matching grid makes a quick shared-language exercise.

WORKS BEST WITH

Part 1, What Strategy Actually Is, which defines the term this sheet builds on. They can be done in either order, but the sequence rewards you.