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Three questions_
October 13, 2025
Strategists make strategy confusing on purpose.

They dress it up and muddy the water: frameworks, insider language, entire books of the stuff.
Then they keep you lost just long enough to sell you a way home.

And, the more lost they can make you feel, the more they can charge you.

But here’s the truth_
_strategy (and the whole of your business) comes down to three questions.

1. What unique value do you offer?
2. How do you deliver it?
3. How do you communicate that to the world?

Or_
What you do.
How you do it.
How you spread the word.

That’s it.

No 14-step process.

No proprietary method.

Just clarity and hard choices.

Answer these three questions and most business problems solve themselves.

Stuck on any of them?
Let's talk⇲


_iain.

FYI: On strategic mastery↓

I think the day I wrote this was a bad day; I can feel it in my handwriting (I should start adding dates to these pages).