When an organizational bias for action drives doing, often thinking falls by the wayside.

Providing services wasn’t the strategy. Providing better services at higher quality and lower costs—while serving as an innovation engine for the company—was the strategy. It was a strategy aimed at winning.

Companies often attempt to move out of an unattractive game and into an attractive one through acquisition.

The strategy logic flow:

Laying out the conditions: To pursue this possibility, what would have to be true?