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Simplicity: 3 lines, 3 words

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Liemandt used to write sprawling, 20-page strategy documents — impressive reading for Stanford and Harvard graduates, he reasoned. Jim Abold, his head of HR, told him flatly that the documents were useless.^[1] Liemandt resisted. Abold then spent a month interviewing every employee in the company and mapped what they thought the strategy actually was. The result was the opposite of the document. The problem, Abold explained, was that each employee found the one sentence they could connect to and called themselves aligned — while functionally pulling in different directions. The fix was to compress strategy to 3 lines of 3 words each, with genuine edge: if you can't articulate the opposite of a statement and find someone who would defend that opposite, the statement isn't a real strategic commitment. Liemandt demonstrates with Alpha's three commitments: love school, learn twice as fast, and build life skills. Each one has opponents — there are people who genuinely believe kids shouldn't love school, that 2x speed is irrelevant, that life skills aren't the school's job.