tags: #publish links: [[Business Strategy and Competition]] created: 2022-08-26 Fri --- # Embodied Strategy https://glazkov.com/2022/08/16/embodied-strategy/ An organisation may have visible, official, published **Stated Strategy**, but it also has a hidden, implicit **Embodied Strategy** resulting from its established habits, processes and history. Implications: - The Embodied Strategy provides resistance to change (more like inertia). - The Embodied Strategy constrains where you can get to from here. It takes time and consistent applied effort to shift. So, a Stated Strategy that tries to go too far away from the Embodied Strategy, or too quickly, is unlikely to succeed. - It may be useful to start a strategy effort by trying to understand the current Embodied Strategy, because you're more likely to succeed if you take this into account.