The Secrets of Strategic Leadership on Cook’s PlayBooks

Welcome back to Cook’s PlayBooks, your go-to resource for creating strategic game plans, actionable frameworks, and clear playbooks.

I’m thrilled to share my third post, where I dive into a pivotal moment in my leadership journey and outline the essentials of Corner One of the Leadership Framework - Strategy.

Introducing: Cook's Coaching Corner - Strategy?

https://jcookflix.substack.com/p/cooks-coaching-corner-strategy

In this post, I recount a seminal conversation with Scott Cook , Intuit’s founder, that shaped my understanding of strategy. It was a wake-up call that led me to define what strategy truly means and how it drives success.

Cook’s Coaching Corner: Strategy

• Game Plan: Learn the critical components of strategy, including vision, current state assessment, challenge identification, and decision-making.
• The Playbook: Focus on key strategic choices that influence revenue decision-makers and how to win customers effectively.
• Chalking the Field: Understand the rules of strategic planning, avoiding common pitfalls, and ensuring your strategy drives planning, not the other way around.

Each week, I’ll post an article focusing on one of these zones in Coach Cook’s Leadership Framework and publish it on LinkedIn, X, Instagram, YouTube, and your email inbox (if you subscribe). I have 100+ weeks of posts already drafted, and my goal is to help take your leadership game to the next level and to help you learn in 1 year what it took me 10 years to learn.

Read the full post here: https://jcookflix.substack.com/p/cooks-coaching-corner-strategy

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Jim