Cavanaugh and her partner, Gray, said they found the would-be party-goer sitting in a car. good strategy relies on a sober assessment of what is real, the ability to debate and argue, the discipline to maintain focus and say no to 99% of our options. Conflict is hard, but groups are more successful when they figure out how to movetowardeach other instead ofawayPro-tips:For starters,slow down. And then you wondered where it went to, as I reached for you Templates, even good ones, tend to lead to surface level answers and fluff. In my experience, the real task of strategy-making is about stripping away the noise to find the real core question the group needs to grapple with. Easier said than done, but if you really want to move your group forward, find the deepest unanswered question, push the group to reveal where it is aligned and misaligned, and debate the misalignments until there is an honest conclusion, even if it ain’t pretty.