{"id":3649,"date":"2021-09-27T22:22:08","date_gmt":"2021-09-27T15:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbs.binus.ac.id\/management\/?p=3649"},"modified":"2021-11-27T22:24:32","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T15:24:32","slug":"strategy-to-beat-the-odds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbs.binus.ac.id\/management\/2021\/09\/strategy-to-beat-the-odds\/","title":{"rendered":"Strategy to beat the odds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you internalize the real odds of strategy, you can tame its social side and make big moves.<\/p>\n<p>Several times a year,\u00a0top management teams enter the strategy room with lofty goals and the best of intentions: they hope to assess their situation and prospects honestly, and mount a decisive, coordinated response toward a common ambition.<\/p>\n<p>Then reality intrudes. By the time they get to the strategy room, they find it is already crowded with egos and competing agendas. Jobs\u2014even careers\u2014are on the line, so caution reigns. The budget process intervenes, too. You may be discussing a five-year strategy, but everyone knows that what really matters is the first-year budget. So, many managers try to secure resources for the coming year while deferring other tough choices as far as possible into the future. One outcome of these dynamics is the hockey-stick projection, confidently showing future success after the all-too-familiar dip in next year\u2019s budget. If we had to choose an emblem for strategic planning, this would be it.<\/p>\n<p>Further reading: https:\/\/www.mckinsey.com\/business-functions\/strategy-and-corporate-finance\/our-insights\/strategy-to-beat-the-odds?cid=other-eml-alt-mip-mck&amp;hdpid=f44f3d41-5420-4a91-be68-56b2a17a6019&amp;hctky=11705927&amp;hlkid=a5de2d1f1c7b4911894a529b3441ab7e#<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you internalize the real odds of strategy, you can tame its social side and make big moves. Several times a year,\u00a0top management teams enter the strategy room with lofty goals and the best of intentions: they hope to assess their situation and prospects honestly, and mount a decisive, coordinated response toward a common ambition. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbs.binus.ac.id\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbs.binus.ac.id\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbs.binus.ac.id\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbs.binus.ac.id\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbs.binus.ac.id\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3649"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bbs.binus.ac.id\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3650,"href":"https:\/\/bbs.binus.ac.id\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3649\/revisions\/3650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbs.binus.ac.id\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbs.binus.ac.id\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbs.binus.ac.id\/management\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}