The strategist faces many challenges.
The challenge that comes with the necessary solitude required to for strategy to emerge.
The challenge of constraints, or reality.
The challenge of humility, when the strategist’s high agency meets with the systems in place.
The challenge of findin a path, and the challenge of making others see that path, to see what you see, to see what could be.
The challenge of ego, facing feedback.
The challenge of learning from that feedback.
The challenge of asking not only “why didn’t it work?”, but “why did we thought it would?”.
The challenge of long term vision and patience, in a world that seems to have abandoned such concepts.
The challenge of comfort, when navigating complex situations and systems.
Maybe above all: the challenge of change.