Jan 25, 2022

Coin of the realm. Strategy and tactics, testing ideas, Henry III.

By Mary Trigiani • Issue #1070 • View online

Henry III apparently was considered by some to be quite the strategist. One of his actions was to bring back the gold coin to England. The recent discovery of one of those coins, in a field, prompts a question. What will be written about today’s leaders, when their organizations’ results are analyzed in a far-off future? We have something they had not articulated in the 13th century: the understanding that the coin of the realm is what we do – the results – with our strategies and resources, not just what we preach, assert or hammer.

Amateur Metal Detectorist Discovers 13th-Century Gold Coin Featuring Henry III

A numismatic scholar named Gregory Edmund from Spink & Son noticed the coin online, and he advised the finder of its true significance. Minted around 1257, the stamped gold coin shows King Henry III of England sitting on a throne with scepter and orb. It is one of the earliest examples of gold English coinage, and one of only eight known examples from the reign.

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Strategy is the development and alignment of the three propositions: value proposition, profit proposition, and people proposition. For any strategy to be successful and sustainable, an organization must develop an offering that attracts buyers (the value proposition); it must create a business model that enables the company to make money out of its offering (profit proposition); and it must motivate the people working for or with the company to execute the strategy (people proposition).

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Ideas aren’t the problem. You don’t necessarily need to get better at coming up with them. What you really need to get good at is testing your ideas.

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