Did you get it? Your Strategy Smarty Pants Summary From Strategystorming - Edition 3, September 8


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Top Brand & Story Strategy & Strategic Thinking For Focus & Growth for Strategic Thinkers & Doers.

“Strategy is figuring out what not to do.” ― Steve Jobs

Here's your Strategystorming Smarty Pants Summary rundown on some strategically significant work out there from the minds of Strategystorming.co

Here's how to take a good look at your strategic thinking and how you can get better at it.

Become more curious, find your points of alignment to get your focus, and define your growth potential. That's being a strategy smarty pants. And that's strategic thinking for the rest of us.

Here are 4 quick & easy steps to get you going down the path of strategic thinking and how to win with your strategy:

  1. Quick strategy reads to provoke your curiosity
  2. Easy strategy & strategic AI tools to integrate AI with your overall business strategy
  3. Clear brand strategy activities & actions to help you align your strategic thinking and define your strategy
  4. Strategy SuperModels - We're adding in some detailed analysis of the hands-on strategy superModels and how you can use them in your business

It's Brand Strategy by Design. It's Strategic Thinking refined.

Let's get into it...

1. Strategic Thinking & Strategy Articles

How can we focus on the important things and discard the rest?

Here are some Strategic Thinking articles that will help you find focus to explore your growth potential with curiosity.

How Do You Build A Strategy Operating System?

How do you turn hard & difficult strategy into smart strategy? ...without magical unicorns? ...

Do You Have A Working Brand Strategy?

Maybe it's time to reimagine how you see your brand, and make it exclusive?

2. Strategy Tools & AI Strategic Tools

Your quick insights into how to use strategic tools with AI. There are a lot out there and more launching every week, so we're preparing what we are using so you can see it in action. This is what we have been using this week.

These two tools this week are both video-related... why? Because video is pretty amazingly important, and here are some tools that make post-production very very easy and really leverages what AI is good at doing - streamlining what you do so you can focus on what excites you.

Opus.pro

Create amazingly fast AI-generated clips of all of your videos that you can download and play as reels, shorts, TikToks, and everything else.

Glasp.co

Now you can link your Youtube videos direct to ChatGPT to create some amazing summaries to post to your blog. Stunningly simple.

3. Strategy Activities

Strategy doesn't need to be 'slow'. Quickly get results with these simple actions to do.

Design Your Brand Story Strategy, Simply.

Grab your brand strategy tool kit to define your purpose and see what your brand story actually can look like.

Get the creative strategy workbook for 30% off and get the Breakthrough Strategy Playbook for free (PDF).

Enter code NJRNX0GGA679 on checkout.

Take a look here:

Join Us For The NEXT Strategy Sprint & Events

Join us for the upcoming Simple Strategy Sprint & other strategy thinking events, to see it all in action and how you can put it to good use.

Express your interest here:

How Can You Become A Better Strategic Thinker?

Get your strategic thinking guide here

4. Strategy SuperModels

Our weekly rundown of the BEST Strategy Supermodel that we are demo-ing.

What's a Strategy SuperModel? It's a visual, tactile, and kinesthetic tool to design & create a strategy that drives growth and articulates your solutions that your audience can touch, see, and feel.

This week we've taken a big hard look at the concept of SWOT, and how we can transform this idea into a Strategy SuperModel.

Next week we're going to be reimagining how we see, think and do SEO with our strategy supermodels.

SWOT SuperModel

Watch the visual and read up on the strategic transformation we can make as we take the SWOT model and transform it into a 3D Strategic tool to help align your strategy.

SWOT - DIY Free Tool

Grab the Free DIY SWOT tool worksheet to help you walk through the critical steps of building your own SWOT model.

"Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago." — Warren Buffett

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Thank you!

Doyle

Doyle Buehler
Strategystorming.co

Senior Smarty Pants

+61 (0) 413 106 880
doyle@dept.digital





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