strategy-criticlisted

Stress-test a product strategy with two explicit checks, Rumelt's kernel test and the Playing-to-Win "what would have to be true" test, plus a durability check against the seven powers. Use when a strategy draft needs review before signature, when leadership suspects it is a goals slide, when the roadmap contains bets the strategy cannot explain, or before annual planning copies last year's strategy forward. Takes the strategy document and its evidence links; returns a verdict per check, the conditions that would have to be true with their evidence status, and the rewrites needed, in the product strategy template.
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# Strategy Critic: strategy or slogan, decided in writing Most strategy documents are goals with adjectives: "be the leading platform", "delight customers", "win the mid-market". They exclude nothing, so they guide nothing, and the roadmap gets decided by whoever argued loudest. This skill runs two named tests that a goals slide cannot pass, and returns the document with its gaps marked rather than its prose polished. ## Files this skill drives - [../../templates/planning/product-strategy.md](../../templates/planning/product-strategy.md), where the passed strategy lands section by section - The worksheets for checks 1, 2, and 3, in order: [../../frameworks/strategy/strategy-kernel.md](../../frameworks/strategy/strategy-kernel.md), [../../frameworks/strategy/playing-to-win.md](../../frameworks/strategy/playing-to-win.md), [../../frameworks/strategy/seven-powers-audit.md](../../frameworks/strategy/seven-powers-audit.md) - Reads [../../templates/planning/roadmap.md](../../templates/planning/roadmap.md) for the bets the strategy must explain; sends unevidenced conditions to [../../templates/execution/risk-register.md](../../templates/execution/risk-register.md) - See also [../../frameworks/systems/leverage-points.md](../../frameworks/systems/leverage-points.md) (Meadows, 1999) when the strategy passes all three checks and the last two quarters of delivered work still moved nothing. A coherent strategy whose every action is a threshold raised or a limit relaxed is coherent at t