If your strategy starts with “winning aspirations,” you might already be off track.
Too often, businesses aim for market leadership without asking the key question: What do our customers actually need?
This kind of thinking leads to strategic failure before execution even begins.
Instead of asking, “How can we become #1?” ask, “Whose problem aren’t we solving yet?”
That’s how Dyson reinvented vacuuming — and how you unlock real business growth. Not through goal setting, but by solving unmet needs.
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Svyatoslav Biryulin
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I write about cognitive biases in business strategy, mental models for strategic decision making, and paradoxes in business strategy. Subscribe to get new articles delivered straight to your inbox.



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