Strategic Clarity

The Practical Method for Transforming Vision into Results

What if your strategy isn’t broken—your execution is just misaligned?

That’s a big problem, and you need to act fast. But how? After two decades as an executive, professor, and consultant, Kyle J. Harkema delivers your best next moves.

In Strategic Clarity, Harkema shares a new research-backed diagnostic mirror that decodes how your company truly thinks, listens, and acts. Then he gives you the road map you need to get back on track to grow.

As Harkema well knows, strategy lives or dies in an organization’s behaviors. Once you see the patterns of your company with clarity, you can stop talking strategy—and start living it. You’ll find:

• How companies behave under pressure: the five personas
• The fast diagnostic assessment to show where you really stand
• Strategic playbooks that shift orientation so you can grow
• Real case studies that tie alignment to measurable outcomes

Harkema doesn’t bring you theory dressed up as insight. He delivers the right diagnostic tool for these times—so ambitious executives, teams, and organizations can pivot, grow, and win. 

Whether you’re leading an enterprise, scaling a start-up, or teaching students about strategy, Harkema’s book will forever change how you look at any organization—and how you can make the smart moves to transform it.

Because in the end, strategy isn’t what gets written down. It’s what gets repeated.

The Strategic Clarity Workbook

Using the Strategic Orientation Index to Transform Vision into Results

Apply the Strategic Orientation Index™ inside your organization. 

The Strategic Clarity Workbook is the practical companion to Kyle J. Harkema’s Strategic Orientation Index™ framework—designed to help leaders, teams, consultants, and educators explore how strategy is actually experienced across an organization. Through guided reflections, discussion prompts, behavioral exercises, and the SOI™ Lite Assessment, this workbook helps teams begin identifying the patterns that shape strategic execution. 

Inside, you’ll explore: 

• The five Strategic Orientation personas 
• How organizations think, listen, and act under pressure
• Behavioral patterns that create alignment or friction
• Reflection exercises for leadership teams and workshops
• Practical ways to apply the SOI™ framework in real conversations 

This workbook is designed to spark awareness, alignment, and strategic discussion. While it introduces the core concepts behind the Strategic Orientation Index™, it is not a replacement for the full SOI™ organizational diagnostic process. 

Whether used individually, in leadership workshops, or alongside the main book, this workbook provides a structured way to begin seeing how strategic behavior shapes execution. 

Because strategy is not just a plan. It is a pattern of behaviors repeated across the organization.