Playing to Win strategy cascade template

Sections

Winning aspiration
Where to play
How to win
Core capabilities
Management systems

How a tough reader scores it

When you score a draft against this format, the Critic evaluates this Playing to Win strategy. The weights add up to 100; the fixes for the weakest criteria arrive as cards in the editor.

Criterion	Weight
Aspiration defines winning, not just participating	10
Where-to-play choices are specific and state what's excluded	25
How-to-win is a clear, defensible advantage	25
Choices are mutually reinforcing across the cascade	15
Capabilities and systems are concrete	10
"What would have to be true" conditions are testable	15

How it works in SecondPen.ai

Open the template and the editor writes the blank once, with a line of guidance under each heading that you delete as you fill it in. Write your abstract and the editor names the format it reads like. Ask for a document with a slash command and it offers to start from the matching format. When the draft is ready, the Critic scores it against the criteria above, the way this format's toughest reader would, and the three highest-leverage fixes become Editor cards.

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