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EPISODE · Jul 11, 2025 · 24 MIN

Make your school strategy stick: avoid these 5 mistakes

from Yard Duty: The Art and Science of Modern Schooling · host Will Hanley and Michael Noonan

There’s a famous study from Harvard that suggests 90% of strategies fail. In today’s episode we explore school strategy to help you avoid this fate. We unpack what strategy is in its simplest form. Michael outlines five reoccurring strategy mistakes schools make, regardless of sector, size and background. Avoiding these mistakes helps your strategy stick. This may be the difference between a great strategy and one that ends up on the cutting room floor.Link to the strategy in a minute video from Donald Maclean and Strategy Story: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AXwVy2ikLds&t=7s

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There’s a famous study from Harvard that suggests 90% of strategies fail. In today’s episode we explore school strategy to help you avoid this fate. We unpack what strategy is in its simplest form. Michael outlines five reoccurring strategy mistakes...

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