Strategy is not really a solo sport - even If you're the CEO.
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The best CEOs I know are teachers, and at the core of what they teach is strategy.
I never set out to be CEO. I always set out to be a good team member, a good colleague.
But it is not conscious strategy to go for unconventional roles.
Maybe I'm naive, but I subscribe to the idea that nobody is actually making strategic decisions about their career. Trying to do that would be like playing three-card monte on Canal Street.
The chief strategist of an organization has to be the leader - the CEO.
Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy.
Nobody knows how to be a CEO. It's something you have to learn. It's a very lonely job.
By going solo I could lose a fortune but money is not important.
You build your own strategy. You don't define it by what another competitor is doing.
At the end of the day, if you're a professional athlete in track and field you are the CEO of your company.