Think your 5-year strategic plan is setting you up for success? Think again. In today’s briefing, we break down Kenichi Ohmae’s provocative insight: strategic planning is actually the enemy of strategic thinking. We explore why filling out spreadsheets and endlessly analyzing competitors often leads to a race to the bottom. Discover how true strategy requires a deeply creative, intuitive mindset, and learn how to stop being a bureaucratic planner and start becoming a game-changing strategist.
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Kenichi Ohmae is a renowned Japanese business strategist and author, widely recognized as "Mr. Strategy" for his pioneering work in corporate management. As a former senior partner at McKinsey & Company, he co-founded the firm’s strategic management practice and spent over two decades advising …
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