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Strategic Choices Framework.

Make the two core strategic choices, where to play and how to win, then commit to and document the strategy on a page.

These two choices are the heart of strategy. A business that tries to serve everyone with no clear reason to be chosen has made no strategic choice at all. If where-to-play is "everyone," you have not chosen.

ChoiceYour decision
Where to play (which customers, markets, offerings we focus on)
How to win (why customers choose us, our genuine advantage)

The how-to-win must be a genuine, defensible reason customers choose you, not "good service" that everyone claims.

Commit and document, on one page

A strategy the founder keeps hedging is not a strategy. The documented, committed page is what feeds the goals in the next guide.

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Feeds the Strategic Priorities and Focus, and the goals in Set Goals and Plan. Back to the guide, or start over.