A guide to Strategy

A GUIDE TO STRATEGY What is strategy and how is it different from planning? Strategy in simple terms is the sum of steps taken to achieve a goal, it requires active critical thinking and decision making. For strategy to be strategy, it needs tactical implementations. Tactics are defined as the individual steps that make up a strategy. Planning is a set of predetermined events, threaded together to achieve a particular outcome. Improvisations can be made through contingencies which are accounted and prepared for in advance. Unlike Strategy, it does not require tactical implementation or on the spot critical thinking. Take for example Light Yagami's memory loss plan. It's entirely planned, as Light prepared and set up things in a linear accord where he would achieve an aim, without having to actively implement tactics. All he did was make some preparations such as burying the notebook, and fabricating the rules which lead him to a situation that he had already prepared for. All that was needed was to improvise using his contingencies which were already prepared for the foreseeable circumstances and NOT active critical thinking thus, not strategy. STRATEGY CATEGORIES These are some categories you can use to scale strategy, while of course you don't have to use all of them but I would strongly recommend using these to scale strategy. These categories are roughly ordered in accordance to their perceived importance, some rankings are interchangeable but the triple Es …