Who gets to do strategy?

If you talk to enough aspiring leaders, you’ll become familiar withthe prevalent idea that they need to be promoted before they canwork on strategy. It’s a truism, but I’ve also found this ideaperfectly wrong: you can work on strategy from anywhere in an organization,it just requires different tactics to do so.

Both Staff Engineer and The Engineering Executive’s Primer have chapterson strategy. While the chapters’ contents are quite different, both presenta practical path to advancing your...