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Why so much bad strategy? Cite some companies that are doing the wrong thing when it comes to strategy. How do Rumelt's comments about vision, mission, and values relate to the HBR article from Lesson 2 about Building Your Company's Vision.

https://www.bu.edu/ssw/files/2020/11/Collins-Porras-Building-Vision-1.pdf
https://jlzych.com/2018/06/27/notes-from-good-strategy-bad-strategy/

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Why so much bad strategy? Cite some companies that are doing the wrong thing when it comes to strategy. How do Rumelt's comments about vision, mission, and values relate to the HBR article from Lesson 2 about Building Your Company's Vision.

In regard to companies with bad strategies, the fluffiness, inability to accurately identify challenges, conflation of aspirational goals with strategic planning, and developing objectives that are incapable of being acted on or fail to address specific challenges that have been identified are the issues that produce bad ...

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