STR.Preface:9 - Common Anti-Patterns and How to Avoid Them

Strategy as a forecast deck. A single expected future replaces comparison. Use discriminating futures only where their differences change the choice.

Experiment by default. More activity is treated as learning. Compare the attainable answer, whole burden and a sufficient decision on current evidence.

Direction as permission. A fitting initiative borrows authority from an adopted slogan or filter. Obtain the actual bounded commitment and its independent conditions.

Success by component. Several affordable initiatives overuse one team. Compare their simultaneous whole and the work they displace.

Culture by publication. A template or archive is treated as ordinary enactment. Ask what people actually transmit, recognize, select and retain.