Welcome to another episode of At the Table with Patrick L Choney, where everything we talk about is related to organizational health and the world of work. I'm your host Pat Linconey, joined by the regular full crew of Bo, Cody, Tracy, how are you? You're great. That's fantastic.

Matt's behind the curtain or the glass. He's producing.

Karen's sitting next to me, which I really like. And, Cody, what are we talking about today?

Strategy takes courage.

That's right.

And this is a pretty literal title,

but one that a lot of people don't understand.

To be strategic, most people think strategy is an intellectual thing.

Like, oh, we have to be clever and outthink the competition.

And there's an element of that for sure.

But far more is based on having the courage to actually

take bold action to differentiate yourself to give yourself a better chance to succeed than your

competitors and more often than not the most better chance to succeed than your competitors.

And more often than not, the most strategic companies are the ones that have courage.

And that's what we're going to talk about today.

And this came about because I was doing a webinar recently for a bunch of priests,

pastors who were running parishes and I've talked to ministers about this.

And if you want to have the very best possible organization in their case of Parish,

you have to have the courage not to be generic.

And yet it's so easy to just do things the way they've always been done or do things the way people in your industry do them.

And the best companies in the world have the strategy to be, or the courage to be strategic and that's what we're going to talk about.

I love the way you open that up because I think the you said hey to take bold

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