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I spent all of Thursday working on the strategy and ended up printing it on a single side of paper. I reckoned that I could explain the rest if people wanted me to, either to help them decide whether it was the right strategy or to understand in more detail how we were going to execute it. Christine sent me the team’s final best shot at the numbers early in the afternoon with some notes as to what they did, and didn’t, appear to tell us. In terms of the overall picture they painted, there was nothing materially different from the earlier version. Having read their notes, I concluded the main things worth exploring with Juliette and my other executive colleagues and finalized a set of notes of my own. I also pondered Justin’s guidance to choose a number for the strategy to be all about and that I wanted to be accountable for. As he predicted, it wasn’t the IT budget.

By the end of Thursday, concluding an extraordinary few days’ experiences...