Coherent Action III

...strategy is primarily about deciding what is truly important and focusing resources and action on that objective

The kernel of strategy -- a diagnosis, a guiding policy, and coherent action -- applies to any complex setting.  In many situations the required actions are not mysterious.  The impediment is often the hope that the the pain that those actions may cause could be avoided.  Indeed, we always hope that a brilliant insight or very clever design will allow us to accomplish several apparently conflicting objectives with a single stroke, and occasionally we are vouchsafed this kind of deliverance.

Nevertheless, strategy is primarily about deciding what is truly important and focusing resources and action on that objective.

ACTION POINT: Strategy is a hard discipline because focusing on one thing slights another.