What does strategy include that execution alone does not?

Strategy is choosing the channel, the quiet day and the figure, and saying what will not be done. Execution alone is publishing the calendar someone asked for, even on a day the floor cannot honour it. Ask whether the proposal contains a refusal: a channel left out. If everything is in, there is no strategy, only a task list. “Strategy” is paid for and what arrives is a document that changes neither the listing nor the ad. The next month the same thing as before gets executed. The studio leaves the read and the quarter’s channel in writing, and the piece follows from that. Without that page first, we do not call publishing strategy.

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