Strategy formulation is a creative exercise demanding extraordinary awareness, perception, and insight beyond logic and specialization, most often based on broad knowledge and experience, but not always. Organizational survival is threatened when the best laid strategies are dealt a rapid combination of hard body blows that undermine the organization’s business base. Hard analysis of the competitive or policy arena is always the first step in strategic planning. Horizons need to be expanded through techniques like future search which enables people to do things once thought impossible. Clear visions need to be articulated and shared throughout the organization scaled to the time span appropriate at each level. Implementation is key to broad understanding, and often to disciplines like the Results Definition Model.