Why smart people struggle with strategy (Roger L. Martin)

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Why Smart People Struggle with Strategy

Roger L. Martin, in Harvard Business Review (June 2014): smart people struggle with strategy because there is no right answer. Brilliant students trained to find the correct answer are uncomfortable with choices made under uncertainty, which is exactly what strategy is.

Source: Harvard Business Review

First published on LinkedIn on June 17, 2014. View the original post

Franck Debane helps large companies build new ventures with Forward Partners: about a hundred programmes in more than 50 companies since 2012. He wrote Passez en mode startup (Eyrolles, 2021) and organises the Lead Innovation Day.