A coaching experience that teaches leadership teams how to design, stress-test, and execute a winning business strategy using the Strategy OS toolkit.
What Is a Strategy OS Guide™?
A Strategy OS Guide™ is a seasoned business person, mentor and coach who helps your leadership team learn and apply the Strategy OS Toolkit™ that has been developed based on Steve Preda’s book: Strategy OS: Implement an Advanced Business Operating System in Six Simple Steps. It covers all the book’s concepts as well as other advanced strategy tools he developed since the book’s publication in 2023.
Rather than leaving you alone with a framework, your Strategy OS Guide™ turns Strategy OS® concepts into live teaching, workshops, and guided practice so your team understands why each tool matters and how to use it in your own business to create a highly differentiated, and sustainable high-margin strategy for your business.
What You’ll Learn with a Strategy OS Guide™
With a Strategy OS Guide™, your team works through a structured learning journey that covers the Six Steps of Strategy OS®:
Step 1 — Positioning.
You clarify your Core Business and assess your competitive environment using Porter’s Five Forces plus regulatory pressure. With that insight, you choose your place on the Positioning Matrix—Economy, Variety, Focus, or Luxury—to anchor all future decisions.
Step 2 — Crux Challenge.
You zoom out to identify the single, underlying constraint that most limits your progress. The Guide helps you isolate the one piece of one critical challenge that, if solved, would reopen the growth dam—and then design coherent actions to attack it.
Step 3 — Business Constraints.
Your constraints contain your strategic advantages. You turn limitations into differentiators by extracting brand promises from your challenges and defining the Unique Activities that deliver them.
Step 4 — Expansion of Unique Activities.
You define your Core Market, craft an Advanced Profit per X metric, and build your Strategic Flywheel. Drawing from patterns across many companies, you design additional Unique Activities that amplify your momentum.
Step 5 — Strategy Stack.
You make sure your Unique Activities fit together, forming a durable Strategy Stack. You explore adjacent growth paths—markets, channels, geographies, products—and identify possible network effects.
Step 6 — Perpetual Growth.
Finally, you build long-term scalability through a culture of innovation and disciplined acquisitions or disposals.
Who would hire a Strategy OS Guide™
- CEOs and Business Owners who already have a well-oiled machine business, likely have implemented a basic business operating system such as EOS, Scaling Up, OKRs or Pinnacle, or whose company scores 60% or higher on the Summit Climb Assessment™.
- Founders and executives looking to clarify how their constraints, economic engine, and flywheel fit together into a coherent growth model.
- Organizations that want to educate managers and future leaders in practical strategic thinking tools to grow their business in a “blue ocean”.
Next Step
Interested in a Strategy OS Guide™-led program for your leadership team?