Welcome to "The Business Growth Series" with Trigger Worldwide. Your balance sheet looks clean. Auditors sign off without concerns. Quarterly reports show revenue growth. But beneath the surface, accumulated shortcuts from years past are quietly strangling your business. In this episode, "Strategy Debt Inside Indian Companies," we expose the invisible tax killing growth across India's fastest-moving sectors and reveal how to clear the debt before competitors with fresh strategies capture your market position.
You'll discover:
- The three warning signs that strategy debt is crushing your growth. Learn why teams can't articulate what makes you different, how departmental confusion about priorities creates wasted effort, and why constant firefighting replaces systematic progress when strategy debt accumulates unchecked.
- How shortcuts compound into catastrophic misalignment. See why startups that skip strategy documentation to move fast, family businesses that scale past 100 employees on founder instinct alone, and mid-size firms that copy competitor positioning all accumulate debt that takes years to unwind and costs millions in lost opportunities.
- The turnaround frameworks that cleared strategy debt for global giants. Understand how McDonald's "plan to win" strategy in 2003 rebuilt foundations around profitability and brand enhancement, how Steve Jobs killed 70% of Apple's products to eliminate inherited debt and refocus on making technology human-friendly, and how Netflix rebuilt their entire business model before competitors forced them to by recognizing streaming would replace physical media.
- The five-action system for systematically clearing your strategy debt. Master the comprehensive audit process that documents gaps between stated strategy, operational reality, and market perception, learn top-down positioning that forces hard choices about what to stop versus preserve, discover alignment frameworks that get sales, marketing, product, operations, and finance working from the same playbook, and build quarterly strategy reviews into your operating rhythm so debt never accumulates again.
- Why Simon Sinek's golden circle framework creates debt-free organizations. See how starting with why you exist, explaining how you operate differently, and only then describing what you sell ensures strategies and actions align with core purpose, driving consistency, integrity, and meaningful customer connections.
Whether you're a CEO watching margins shrink despite revenue growth, a CMO trying to explain why campaigns don't compound, or a business leader sensing that everyone works hard but nothing builds momentum, this episode reveals how to:
- Make invisible strategy debt visible through systematic audits
- Rebuild positioning from the current market reality instead of historical momentum
- Translate strategy into working frameworks that teams actually reference daily
- Align every department around unified strategic priorities
- Turn marketing spend into investments that accumulate value instead of expenses that evaporate
Ready to stop executing yesterday's plans in tomorrow's markets? Listen now and learn how a clearing strategy debt creates the compounding advantages that turn linear growth into exponential momentum while competitors carrying heavy debt move slowly through critical market windows.
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