From the course: Strategic Agility
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How to be agile over time
- Because it requires continuous adaptation, strategic agility is a challenging taskmaster. Like any long term program, it can start to feel like strategy is a never ending process, which, of course, it is. If you, as a strategist, be sure to watch out for strategy development fatigue. Where the strategizing process can start to blur for you, seeming like it's simply Groundhog Day. A repetitive sequence that feels like you've been through it over and over again. Now, one way to avoid this kind of fatigue is to incorporate what I call alternating rhythms into the strategy development process. For example, build in periods that are focused more on incremental changes in strategy, alternating with periods where deeper strategy analysis over the long term is performed. It's also important to continually update the metrics you use to judge the effectiveness of the agile strategies you've helped to develop. You'll need a combination of short term and long term analyses to know if you're…
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