What Is Strategy?

Mar 21, 2022 10 Min Video
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Strategy is simple

To many people, strategy is a total mystery. But it’s really not complicated, says Harvard Business School’s Felix Oberholzer-Gee. Companies should simplify and focus on two value drivers, he argues: customer satisfaction and employee satisfaction. By aligning strategic initiatives on these alone, leaders make their workers’ jobs less complicated and improve customer experiences.

Oberholzer-Gee is the author of the Harvard Business Review article “Eliminate Strategic Overload” as well as the book “Better, Simpler Strategy: A Value-Based Guide to Exceptional Performance

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