🪧 Why This Matters

Step 2 clarified what must hold. Step 3 is where you choose what matters most.

This step helps you decide:

• where effort concentrates,
• what stops,
• what changes,
• what resources move,
• and what risk you are deliberately accepting.

🔎 Part 1: Strategic Priorities

Test each priority:

• Does this strengthen our higher intent?
• Does this reflect our chosen role?
• Does this help resolve a key tension?

If not, it is probably not a priority.

🔥 Part 2: Trade-offs and actions

Guidance:

• Stop: work that no longer fits the posture.
• Reduce: work that matters but is not central.
• Continue: core activity that should be protected and sharpened.
• Start / Invest: work or capability that is newly required.

If “Stop” is empty, return to the priorities and posture.

⚖️ Part 3: Resource and risk

Resolve key tensions

Return to the enduring tensions from Step 1.

Resource Alignment

You can’t have strategy without resource movement

If resource lines do not shift, you need to go back to examining your trade-offs

Risk Check

Every strategic decision shifts risk.

Good strategy reduces some risks and deliberately accepts others.

📌 Part 4: Summary

Capture your final position.

Step 3 outcome

By the end of this step, you should be clear on:

• the few outcomes that matter most,
• what is stopping or reducing,
• where resources are moving,
• what tension you are resolving,
• and which risks you are intentionally carrying.

This becomes the bridge to Step 4.