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Strategic thinking for modern leaders

Frameworks, mental models, and real-world case studies to sharpen how you see the playing field and choose where to play.

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About this course

Built for operators who need to move from reactive firefighting to proactive strategy. Across 12 modules you'll pressure-test five core frameworks on live business problems — then build your own playbook you can bring to your next ops meeting or board deck.

What you'll learn

  • Translate vague business goals into testable strategic bets
  • Use frameworks to compare options under real constraints
  • Build a 30/60/90-day strategy pitch for your team
  • Spot when the market is moving against you — early
  • Communicate strategy so it actually lands
  • Decide when to pivot versus double down

Curriculum

workspace_premium Complete all required units to earn your certificate Optional Enrichment — deepens learning, not required

Module 1 — Foundations

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Welcome & course overview 8 min video chevron_right
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What strategy is (and isn't) — reading 15 min chevron_right
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Diagnostic — where are you today 10 min quiz chevron_right

Module 2 — Seeing the market clearly

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Reading the competitive landscape 18 min video chevron_right
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Customer jobs-to-be-done — field guide 20 min chevron_right
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Map your market — worksheet 22 min exercise chevron_right
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Share & critique with cohort Optional 10 min discussion chevron_right

Module 3 — Frameworks for ambiguity

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Five frameworks, one playbook 22 min video chevron_right
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Case — Gojek vs Grab in Vietnam 18 min chevron_right
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Apply the frameworks — scenario quiz 15 min quiz chevron_right

Module 4 — Strategic communication

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Frame the narrative, not the slides 20 min video chevron_right
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Capstone — present your 30/60/90 plan 20 min capstone chevron_right
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Live Q&A with Amira Optional 10 min live chevron_right

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Module 6 — Resource allocation & prioritization

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RICE, ICE, and the art of saying no 15 min chevron_right
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Module 7 — Operating cadence

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Templates — OKRs without the theatre 13 min chevron_right
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Module 8 — Risk & scenario planning

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Pre-mortems and red teams 20 min video chevron_right
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Scenario cards — the three-futures exercise 15 min chevron_right
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Module 9 — Leading through ambiguity

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Making decisions without enough information 18 min video chevron_right
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Case — how Figma pivoted pre-launch 17 min chevron_right
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Share a fork-in-the-road decision Optional 15 min discussion chevron_right

Module 10 — Stakeholder alignment

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Influence without authority 20 min video chevron_right
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The one-page brief that moves a C-suite 15 min chevron_right
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Module 11 — Measuring strategic impact

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Module 12 — Capstone · your strategic playbook

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Amira Yusof

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Has coached 400+ founders and operators. Teaches with real case studies from her portfolio — no toy examples.

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★★★★★ · 2 weeks ago · Completed the course

The 2x2 framework module alone was worth the price. I'd been stuck on a portfolio decision for a month and Amira's approach unlocked it in one sitting.

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Case studies are from real SEA companies — not the usual recycled HBR stuff. Made the frameworks actually stick.

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Loved the pacing. One gripe — the capstone prompt assumes you're already in a leadership role. Would be nice to have an IC variant.

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★★★☆☆ · 2 months ago · Completed the course

Solid frameworks but some videos felt rushed. Wish there were more worked examples between the main cases.

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Frameworks for ambiguity

Module 3 · Unit 2 of 4 · Content type: Video lesson
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Amira walks through the 2x2 ambiguity matrix using a real case from a regional retailer. Watch for the moment she flips the axis — that's the unlock.

description Reading — What strategy is (and isn't)

Est. 15 min · Updated Apr 14, 2026

Most teams confuse strategy with planning. A plan is a list of what you will do. A strategy is a coherent answer to the question: why will this work when alternatives wouldn't?

The three tests of a real strategy

  • Diagnosis. You've named the actual constraint — not the symptom.
  • Guiding policy. You've made a single choice that rules other choices out.
  • Coherent action. Everyone downstream can trace their work back to the policy.
If your strategy could be someone else's strategy with the logo swapped, it isn't a strategy. It's a press release.

A quick field exercise

Open your team's current OKRs. Can you point to which strategic choice each one serves? If three or more of them don't trace back to the same core bet, you have a portfolio, not a strategy.

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Why this matters Operators who can separate plan from strategy get promoted faster because their asks are clearer. They make it easy for their boss to say yes.

Next unit, we'll apply this filter to three real teams and see where each one is actually allocating resources versus where they say they are.

quiz Diagnostic — where are you today

Question 2 of 5

Which of the following is most likely a strategy, not a plan?

Single choice · 1 point

forum Discussion — Pick a framework and defend it

Participation required · 24 classmates online

Prompt from Amira

Pick one framework we covered today — Porter's 5F, Jobs-to-be-Done, or the 2x2 ambiguity matrix. In 3-5 sentences, describe a real moment in your work when the right framework would have changed your decision. Reply to two classmates before the end of the week.

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Amira Yusof Instructor · 2h ago

Great prompts coming in. Remember: a framework is only useful if it would have changed what you did next. If your story works with any framework, try again with a tighter constraint.

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Hafiz Rahman· 5h ago

JTBD. We spent Q4 building a dashboard nobody opened. The "job" customers had was to justify a spend to their CFO in 30 seconds — a shareable one-pager would have killed it. Framework would have saved us two engineers for six weeks.

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Priya MenonThis is the clearest JTBD example I've read in this thread. Curious — how did you eventually test the one-pager?
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Nadira Karim· 1d ago

2x2 matrix. We were debating whether to enter a new vertical. Once we plotted "market readiness" against "adjacent to core", two of five options collapsed instantly. Would have saved a month of arguing.

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assignment Capstone — Strategic memo

Due Fri, Apr 24 · Peer-reviewed · 2,000 words max
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Your brief

Write a one-page strategic memo for a (real or hypothetical) CEO. Name the strategic bet, the alternatives you rejected, and the first three moves you'd make in the next 90 days. Ground it in one of the frameworks from this module.

How it's graded (peer + instructor)

  • Diagnosis (25%) — named the real constraint, not the symptom
  • Choice (25%) — a single bet that rules other choices out
  • Coherence (25%) — 90-day moves trace back to the bet
  • Clarity (25%) — a CEO could act on this in one read
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Welcome & course overview 8 min
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Diagnostic — where are you today 10 min · 5 questions

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