Advantages of a Strategy
Certainly, there are benefits to having a strategy, as outlined by Robert S. Kaplan in The Execution Premium (2008):
“Strategic initiatives represent the force that accelerates an organizational mass [or individual] into action, overcoming inertia and resistance to change,” making the strategy the key element for injecting momentum into our pursuits.
Indeed, in Life Strategies McGraw points out that having a strategy frees us from a “pointless and misguided reliance on willpower”, which he considers a myth – “an unreliable emotional fuel, experienced at fever pitch”.
Willpower will temporarily energize our efforts, he says – helping us to make the leap – but it will also bring us to a halt once the emotional responses ...
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