Which best describes your strategic predicament and attendant risk?

1. You offer compelling value to a rapidly growing marketBiggest Risk: You aim too low and succeed – while others swoop in and capture the lion’s share of the opportunity
2. You see dwindling demand for your products and servicesBiggest Risk: You wait too long to take a sharp right turn toward new opportunities while cash, leverage, resources, and opportunities dwindle as well
3. You have many, many promising ideasBiggest Risk: You spread resources thinly or wallow in indecision, both of which ensure you move nothing of significance forward
4. You are headed on a new or greatly expanded trajectoryBiggest Risk: Your current organization is the wrong organization for your new goals and is simply not up to the new challenges 
5. You are ambitious and always ahead of the curveBiggest Risk: The organization never catches up to the vision and fails to deliver the expected quality on time
6. You are risk averse or content with the status quoBiggest Risk: Change continues, as it is wont to do, and success fades while you keep doing the same old thing
7. You do strategic planning regularly and have a fat binder to prove itBiggest Risk: The fat binder collects dust and you do what you would have done if you hadn’t done any strategic planning at all
8. Your operations are truly excellent or will be soonBiggest Risk: Your focus on operations detracts from your ability to be strategic or to make internal concerns secondary to external realities
9. You have a sound opportunity but struggle to translate your vision into realistic plans and profitable resultsBiggest Risk: You spend big money, make a gallant effort, but experience little success
10. You are highly competent, proud, always learning, and making steady progress on all your initiativesBiggest Risk: You are too competent, capable, and proud to see the ways in which you are holding yourself back, slowing progress, or missing opportunities
11. You have the coolest new invention since sliced breadBiggest Risk: It’s cool but there is no market for it, at least not at a price and volume that would make it profitable
12. You are too consumed by the daily grind to think strategicallyBiggest Risk: You burn-out while someone else eats your lunch
13. You are wondering why I am providing a thirteenth item when the title is Twelve PerilsBiggest Risk: You are too concerned with details and consistency to see the big picture, shift your perspective, find new opportunities, and leap the chasms leaders must leap

Identifying potential problems is the first step in preventing and eliminating them. What can you do to minimize your strategic risks?

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