Two Worlds of Strategy
By Michael J. Hennelly
March 06, 2018
THE NATURE OF THE PROBLEM
There are two worlds of strategy and most people are only aware of one. There is the world of corporate strategy articulated and taught in places like Harvard Business School. There is the world of military strategy articulated and taught in the various service war colleges. These two worlds never interact in any meaningful or sustained manner. As a result, strategic leaders in our society are not as effective as they could be and organizations implode from self-inflicted strategic mishaps at an alarming rate. Peter Senge once observed that the average large firm lives only half as long as the average person.[1] It is reasonable to conclude from this observation that there are a great many strategic leaders making a great many bad strategic choices every single day. Having a limited understanding of strategy, based on a familiarity with only one of its two worlds, increases the chances of producing a bad strategy.
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