Playing to Win is a strong framework, but it can create some confusion during its implementation, like making your winning aspiration “be the #1 of X”.

I spoke with Stuart Congdon, a strategy veteran, who has used it many times and walked us through a complete example with my typical annoying questions to get to the root of their strategic decisions!

In this episode, we talked about:

A real implementation of the Play to win framework
Using Customer Journey and Service Blueprint to identify opportunities
How to find your niche for the “where to play”
How to differentiate and don’t make a strategy that could be the same as any competitor
Recommended Book: Superstrings. A Theory of Everything

And much more!

You can find Stu on Linkedin.

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