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Good Strategy Bad Strategy

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Formulate and audit real strategy using Richard Rumelt''s "Good Strategy Bad Strategy": an honest diagnosis, a guiding policy, and coherent action instead of goals, vision, and wishful thinking. Use when the user mentions "good strategy bad strategy", "strategy kernel", "diagnosis guiding policy coherent action", "our strategy is just goals", "strategic planning", "mission vs strategy", "review my strategy", or "annual plan". Also trigger when auditing strategy docs or pitch decks for fluff, turning goal lists into real strategy, formulating strategy for a product or company, or identifying leverage and proximate objectives. Covers the kernel of strategy, bad-strategy detection, and sources of power. For product positioning, see obviously-awesome. For creating uncontested markets, see blue-ocean-strategy.

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Claude CodeCodexCursorGitHub CopilotGemini CLI

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About this skill

Formulate and audit real strategy using Richard Rumelt''s "Good Strategy Bad Strategy": an honest diagnosis, a guiding policy, and coherent action instead of goals, vision, and wishful thinking. Use when the user mentions "good strategy bad strategy", "strategy kernel", "diagnosis guiding policy coherent action", "our strategy is just goals", "strategic planning", "mission vs strategy", "review my strategy", or "annual plan". Also trigger when auditing strategy docs or pitch decks for fluff, turning goal lists into real strategy, formulating strategy for a product or company, or identifying leverage and proximate objectives. Covers the kernel of strategy, bad-strategy detection, and sources of power. For product positioning, see obviously-awesome. For creating uncontested markets, see blue-ocean-strategy.

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About this listing

Category
Product & design
Reported license
MIT
Listing language (estimated)
English
Review status
Not individually reviewed
Agent compatibility
Atlas installation supports Claude Code, Codex, and Cursor. Skill-specific dependencies and features are checked during setup.
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