Lessons from the PayPal developer conference
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Strategy has 5 Structural Elements: People
Strategy has 5 Structural Elements - power distribution, decision-making, idea generation, ideas, process and people. If you miss tuning one, you’ll fail. Add items that don’t blend and you’ll fail.
People
In an organization of any size, people bring their domain knowledge, talents and perspectives to strategy creation. Often people are viewed as the first point of strategy failure, but they are actually the last point of failure in a long series of cascading interactions.
Put another way, very bright, creative, motivated people can fail if they are embedded in a strategy creation structure process where power, decision-making, idea generation or process are broken.
Categories: Business Strategies
Tags: 5 Structural Elements , people , strategy
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