Agreed. Strategy is a discipline and a craft, but it’s not engineering. YouTube (or books, for that matter) can give you frameworks and case studies so you are armed with tools and pattern recognition. I’d even be willing to call this learning strategy. But as you say, practicing strategy is about how you apply the craft to ill-structured problems.
In that vein, I tell learners to find an organization they already belong to. Then volunteer to assist in crafting a short-, mid- and long-term strategy.
Yes...do it for free.
This experience will do more for the individual than any class, book or video. The important dynamics will reveal themselves, and a host of nice-to-have-but-not-essentials will also show themselves.
Agreed. Strategy is a discipline and a craft, but it’s not engineering. YouTube (or books, for that matter) can give you frameworks and case studies so you are armed with tools and pattern recognition. I’d even be willing to call this learning strategy. But as you say, practicing strategy is about how you apply the craft to ill-structured problems.
In that vein, I tell learners to find an organization they already belong to. Then volunteer to assist in crafting a short-, mid- and long-term strategy.
Yes...do it for free.
This experience will do more for the individual than any class, book or video. The important dynamics will reveal themselves, and a host of nice-to-have-but-not-essentials will also show themselves.