Most strategic plans start with ambition before anyone agrees on reality. This free assessment gives you a clear score, shows where the business is carrying the most drag, and points to the kind of strategic conversation your leadership team should have next.
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In the book, every strategy starts with one question: what situation are you really in? Skip it, and three things go wrong. The plan chases an ambition the business can’t yet support. The team never aligns, because everyone is reading the situation differently. And focus scatters, because nothing has been ruled out. The assessment answers Question 1 honestly, so the next six questions have something true to build on.
Answer twenty-five plain yes-or-no questions. Get a score, a clear picture of where the business is carrying the most drag, and the strategic direction your situation points to.
The book turns strategy into seven decisions a leadership team can make in a day and a half. The assessment answers the first one: what situation are we really in? From there, the work moves from direction to action.
You cannot answer questions two through seven well until you have answered the first one honestly. Start with the situation.
This assessment is Question 1 of the method in Strategic Planning Simplified by Jeff Shannon. The same simple questions and honest tradeoffs he uses with leadership teams in the room, now in your hands to start with.
Four minutes. Twenty-five questions. A personalized situation report you keep. It is the first decision of seven, and the one everything else depends on.
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