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Emergent Strategy

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Henry Mintzberg & James WatersStrategic Management Journal, 1985

Realised strategy combines deliberate intentions with patterns that emerge from action — strategies form as well as get formulated.

Rita McGrath & Ian MacMillanDiscovery-Driven Planning, HBR 1995

In uncertainty, plan to learn: convert assumptions into checkpoints and let the strategy be discovered at lowest possible cost.

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