The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists

In the follow-up to Good Strategy/Bad Strategy, Rumelt shifts focus from defining strategy to the hardest step in practice: identifying the "crux" — the single, decisive obstacle the rest of the strategy must be built around. With examples from tech companies, government agencies, and military campaigns, he shows how leaders too quick to act often solve the wrong problem, and offers concrete tools for testing whether a diagnosis actually hits the mark before resources are committed.