Common Strategy Mistakes

Common mistakes that teams make when not thinking strategically:

• Focusing on the wrong priorities
• Focusing on the wrong outcome
• Not involving the right people at the right time
• Not seeing the bigger picture
• Not anticipating problems
• Not understanding how one project impacts another
• Working without thinking through why the work is being done
• Diving into work without thinking if it’s already been solved before
• Working and getting feedback only at completion (not earlier)
• Not converting ideas into action in efficient ways

• Strategy
• Management