We Don’t Have a Strategy Problem, We Have a Thinking Problem.

The future won’t be shaped by better plans, but by better minds.

Strategy is one of the most misunderstood disciplines today. Everyone talks about it. Few can define it. And even fewer get to practise it before the stakes are high.

Ask five leaders what strategy is, and you will hear five different metaphors: a sandbox, a compass, a roadmap, a vision, a choice. All useful, but vague.

The truth is simple: strategy has become a fluffy concept. It is important, but difficult to quantify, practise, or turn into something real.

And it is not just strategy, creativity, leadership, problem-solving… these are the capabilities organisations value most. But they are also the hardest to teach in a concrete, repeatable, “you can practise this tomorrow” way.

Most strategic frameworks reflect this gap:

• You learn the framework, but only for a very specific context.

• You memorise the terms, but rarely see how they behave in motion.

• You leave the session feeling informed, but not more capable.

• And you almost never get to practise strategic thinking until the pressure is real

Which is why FusekiB was created: to fix the part of strategy that no one trains.

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The Limits of Traditional Strategy Training

Strategy courses do what they are designed to do, but they have limits. 

They give you structured models for market analysis, competitive landscapes, financial decisions, organisational design. These tools work well when conditions are predictable, information is clear, and time is on your side.

But the real world works differently.

When time is short, resources are tight, or priorities shift, we tend to do the same thing: we drop the frameworks and fall back on instinct.

This is not because we’re untrained. Strategic frameworks teach analysis well, but they seldom train the mental movements or cognitive architecture that make strategic thinking possible under uncertainty.

So under pressure, we might default to familiar patterns:

• zooming out too little or too much,

• over-planning or under-planning,

• reacting emotionally,

• misjudging priorities,

• clinging to habits that don’t fit the moment.

  
  

These breakdowns aren’t failures of intelligence; they’re signs of a training gap. We were taught what to analyse, but not how to think strategically while everything else is in motion.

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From Insight to Practice

Once we recognised the gap, that strategic frameworks teach analysis but rarely train the thinking beneath strategy, the next question became clear:

How do you practise strategic thinking in a way that is quantifiable, low-stakes, and repeatable?

This is where the ancient game of Go became more than a metaphor. Go is one of the purest forms of strategy. It is a perfect information game where nothing is hidden from either player. Every move is visible. Every consequence unfolds honestly.

Because of that, Go gives you a rare environment:

• quantifiable

• repeatable

• low stakes

• deeply reflective of how you think

  
  

Go has been referenced endlessly in business cultures, yet almost no one has built a direct, systematic method to use it as a training ground for modern strategic thinking.

And that revealed what was needed: a practical space to observe the mechanics of strategic thinking. 

A place to see the mind’s subtle movements when uncertainty appears, such as:

• how you switch postures

• how you recognise your defaults

• how you hold multiple thinking styles at once

• how you operate with limited resources

• how you leave room for iteration, correction, and adaptation

• how clarity forms or fails at the moment of decision

  
  

This is why what we built had to complement existing frameworks, not compete with them.

FusekiB does provide tools like The Journey, the RCDC-Engine, and the Archetypes, but these are only scaffoldings. 

The deeper aim is simple:

To train strategic thinking itself.

Because strategy is not a template.

It is a skill.

And like any skill, it grows only through practice, metacognitive awareness, and reflection.

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Turning Frameworks Into Capability

Because FusekiB was designed to complement existing frameworks, the real work happens in what comes next: helping leaders develop the strategic mind needed to use those frameworks well.

It strengthens the underlying machinery of reasoning so that any framework, whether it is SWOT, 5 Forces, OKRs, design thinking, or even military doctrine, can be applied properly, even under pressure, uncertainty, and imperfect information.

FusekiB is not a replacement. It is a baseline, a mirror and a training ground for the strategic mind.

It exists so leaders can become not just strategically informed, but strategically capable.

The future will not reward people who simply rely on fixed frameworks. It will reward those who can think strategically in motion.

If we want better decisions, better leaders, and better organisations, we need to train the mind, not just the model.

Strategic capability grows through deliberate practice, and FusekiB was built to support that growth with discipline and depth.

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