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■ New thinking. What new, creative approaches can you take to improve your

team’s work and increase the impact of your team’s contributions? Are
there new products or services to offer? How can you tap into your team’s
wisdom and experience to identify new opportunities?

■ Options and choices. What choices about what to do and what not to do
should be the basis of your team’s strategy? How might these play out and
what would it take to move in each direction? Are certain options more dis-
tinctive and harder for competitors to follow? Do certain options fit better
with your company and skills, and lay a foundation for more future growth?
How can you quickly test your preferred options with customers, execu-
tives, and other stakeholders and then use the data to iterate and improve
your strategy?

■ Allocate resources. What are the resource implications of your team’s
strategy? Do you need more budget or different capabilities? Are you giving
your team members the resources they need to be successful?

■ Implementation. How will you assign accountability and track progress of
your team’s strategy? How can you do this in a way that allows for con-
tinual learning, midcourse corrections, and the development of sustaining
capability?