{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/69d60ca52a193257adc683b0/6a61c72f562e3ad886cb9810?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Why most companies don’t actually have a strategy | Better Moments #2 | Roger Martin","description":"<p>Most companies can show you a plan. Far fewer can explain the choices underneath it.</p><p><br></p><p>In this Better Moment, Roger Martin strips strategy back to what it actually is: what you do, not what you say. He explains why a list of initiatives is not a strategy, how the question “What would have to be true?” can get a divided room moving, and why AI is much better at finding the average answer than a distinctive one.</p><p><br></p><p>Thirteen minutes on the choices that make a strategy real.</p><p><br></p><p>Listen to Roger’s full Better at Work conversations:</p><p>Part 1: <a href=\"https://shows.acast.com/betteratworkpodcast/episodes/the-worlds-1-strategy-thinker-on-why-planning-isnt-strategy\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://shows.acast.com/betteratworkpodcast/episodes/the-worlds-1-strategy-thinker-on-why-planning-isnt-strategy</a></p><p>Part 2: <a href=\"https://shows.acast.com/betteratworkpodcast/episodes/part-2-the-worlds-1-strategy-thinker-on-why-planning-isnt-st\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https://shows.acast.com/betteratworkpodcast/episodes/part-2-the-worlds-1-strategy-thinker-on-why-planning-isnt-st</a></p><p><br></p><p>Book: <em>Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works</em>, by Roger Martin and A.G. Lafley.</p><p><br></p><p>Follow Better at Work so season five lands in your feed when we return in September.</p>","author_name":"Cathal Quinlan"}