The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists

The paradigm-busting theory for doing strategy.

What passes for strategy in too many businesses, government agencies, and military operations is a toxic mix of wishful thinking and a jumble of incoherent policies.

Richard P.

Rumelt’ s breakthrough concept is that leaders become effective strategists when they focus on challenges rather than goals, pinpointing the crux of their pivotal challenge— the aspect that is both surmountable and promises the greatest progress— and taking decisive, coherent action to overcome it.