Strategists audit for progress

Technocratic leaders trust process completeness; strategic leaders audit processes for progress toward outcomes—and abandon or alter a process when it is not producing results (Roger Martin).

• Technocrats map strategy → long-range planning → budget → OKRs and treat the chain as the point; strategists treat outputs as the point.
• Over-indexing on “running the process well” can mask stagnation until the leader is gone.