August 21, 2025 · by Luke Kelly · 5 min read

Strategy Needs Systems

A decision without a mechanism is a wish. Here’s a simple way to connect strategy to weekly work.

Start with the smallest change that would be obviously true if your strategy were working. That becomes your keystone behavior.

Design a lightweight ritual that makes that behavior hard to skip: a weekly review, a checklist, a dashboard view pinned by default.

Assign ownership and make the calendar do the remembering. If it isn’t scheduled, it isn’t real.

Finally, measure lagging results sparingly, but obsess over leading indicators. Systems improve when feedback is fast.

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