Strategy and Tactics are not mutually exclusive things

Part of this is a by-product of running larger companies successfully. As the company size grows, you need to elevate yourself out of the weeds and towards a more long-term view. But another part is the importance of balancing short-term, tactical work with long-term strategic intent. Although the best-performing CEOs spend more time thinking long-term, this was still balanced against other time horizons. Very few CEOs spent more than half their time thinking long-term; the highest performing were those who still had a healthy balance between long, mid and short-term perspectives. <blockquote> Most CEOs know they have to divide their attention among short-, medium-, and long-term perspectives, but the adaptable CEOs spent significantly more of their time — as much as 50% — thinking about the long term. Other executives, by contrast, devoted an average of 30% of their time to long-term thinking. </blockquote> If unbalanced, you often see a high-level strategy but nothing connecting it to the day-to-day work. <a href="https://antmurphy.medium.com/strategy-and-tactics-are-not-mutually-exclusive-things-a862c10fde64">Read More</a>