Post by Stefan Michel

In my course STRATEGIC THINKING, I put one question at the center of the strategic journey: “What the heck is going on?” Before defining a strategy, you must understand what is going on. Because too many things are typically happening simultaneously, strategists need to separate the key drivers from the noise and distinguish between the root cause and the symptoms. Analyzing and diagnosing are never clear-cut and always ambiguous. However, a strategist needs to take a point of view based on the information available. As a preparation for this course, I ran a strategy quiz and was totally overwhelmed with the responses. More than 300 of my esteemed LinkedIn followers participated daily. I promised a sweet surprise to those who answered at least 12 questions correctly. Since there were so many, here is the third list. Congrats to all of you. Please send me a direct message with your email address, which I will use only for follow-up. Markus Portmann Patrick Lim Rafael M. de Agar Gaetano Bonifacio, PhD, MBA Fabian Müller Karsten Thinggaard Hans von Pfuhlstein, PhD Andreas Dannenberg Andrea Liverani Ashish Verma Anita Jastrzebska Anis Mungapen Roberto Matta Zabdiel Dominguez Ranjit Thakur Rosario Osobase philippe messmer Nuno Fernandes Madina Umbetova Moncef Tanfour Olga Matveeva, PhD, Ph.D. Morten Werner Hansen Nicoletta Kahya Jurgen de Ruijter Gerdinand Bosch Alice Sauerer Akash C. Aurelien Berthier Rasmus Kirkeby Salling Stephan Feige Pascal Elsener, EMBA Nick Jelev Marc R. Comer Nicolas Steck Marty Diener Karol Popa