Most businesses recognise three or four of the Seven Cardinal Sins of Strategy. This free diagnostic shows you which ones are yours — and what cures them. 21 statements, about five minutes, no sign-up.
Free diagnostic · 5 minutes
Which of the Seven Cardinal Sins of Strategy is your business committing?
Strategies don’t fail in a thousand ways. Strip it down and you land on seven: Ignorance, Discord, Confusion, Incongruity, Doubt, Incompetence and Inertia.
Answer 21 short statements about your business as it is today, not as the plan says it should be. You’ll get a score for each sin and the cure for your top three. Nothing is stored or sent anywhere — your answers stay in your browser.
Tip: the result gets sharper when several leaders take it separately and compare. If your answers differ a lot, that is Discord showing itself.
Your result
0–33% under control · 34–66% watch it · 67–100% an active sin
Turn the sins into an agenda
The first two sins are cured while you build your OGSM; the rest are cured by how you communicate, review and resource it. Start with the one-page plan.
Prefer to be walked through it? The OGSM Strategy Builder runs this diagnosis as Phase 0 and then facilitates your whole OGSM in Claude.