Strategy Kill List
Identifies what to stop doing, which is the half of strategy that gets skipped because everything currently being done has a defender.
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Running it, start to finish
- List everything you do and where resources actually go.
- Classify honestly — resist marking everything core.
- Start with section 7 and sequence the rest.
What you get back
The output this produces, every time.
- Compares your stated strategy against where resources actually go, which is the real strategy.
- Distinguishes a genuine time-boxed bet from a habit that never had a decision date.
- Counts leadership attention as a cost, which is the scarcest resource and the least tracked.
Getting better results
Where this usually goes wrong, and how to avoid it.
- Include the profitable distractions. Section 3 is where the value is, and things that work but do not serve the strategy are the hardest and most important entries.
- Give it the political context. A kill list that ignores who promised what is a list that will not be executed, however correct it is.
- Sequence rather than announcing everything. A single wholesale announcement triggers coordinated resistance and usually gets reversed.
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