Good Strategy Bad Strategy
by Richard Rumelt
Richard Rumelt argues most organizations confuse goals, slogans, and wishful thinking for strategy. These 4 skills teach the structure of good strategy — identifying the kernel that gives strategy its power, diagnosing the critical challenge accurately, formulating a guiding policy that channels effort, and designing coherent actions that execute the policy — so you can cut through fluff and build strategies that actually work.
Skills (4)
/strategy-kernelPart 1: KernelIdentify the strategy kernel — diagnosis, guiding policy, and coherent actions — that gives good strategy its power.
/diagnose-challengePart 2: DiagnosisDiagnose the critical challenge by cutting through complexity to name the one obstacle that matters most.
/guiding-policyPart 2: PolicyFormulate a guiding policy that channels effort by defining the approach and ruling out alternatives.
/coherent-actionsPart 2: ActionsDesign coherent, coordinated actions that reinforce each other and execute the guiding policy as a unified effort.
Installation
01Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/concaption/spellpages.git ~/.claude/spellpages02Install the plugin
claude plugin install ~/.claude/spellpages/content/books/good-strategy03Start using skills
Type a skill command (e.g. /strategy-kernel) in Claude Code.
one-liner
git clone https://github.com/concaption/spellpages.git ~/.claude/spellpages && claude plugin install ~/.claude/spellpages/content/books/good-strategy