Strategy is Dead – Long Live Meta-Strategy
summary
Argues that fixed five year plans fail and a meta-strategy approach wins by combining specific tools: physical playing cards and Sharpies to prototype code‑like structures, a nine‑box agility map, Stewart Brand shearing layers and Boyd OODA loops. Counts 2,337 card Kickstarters and nearly 500 non‑game card tools. Builds a movable layered card system for Konica Minolta to shorten R&D timelines and an island model for customer service driven by seasonal data, generating many rapid alternative futures through continual testing and iteration using moving objects and layers.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction and welcome
- 3:58Strategy is dead
- 15:52Moving objects and mechanics
- 20:29Layers and shearing layers
- 28:04Volatile quadrants and disruption
- 31:37Meta-strategy and loops
- 38:35Summary and Q&A
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