This programmatic article traces the origins of the current debate on strategy and embeds strategy into the larger context of procedural politics. Beside aspects of process figuration and rules of the game, a sketch of the procedural dimensions of politics outlines the temporality of politics. The procedural perspective on politics has theoretical and practical consequences. One example is the procedural clarification of the presently predominant definition of strategy by Raschke and Tils in the German discourse, another one is the conjunction of strategy discourse to models of creative and competent action in pragmatic theory and cognitive science. Procedural thought also expands political process consultancy towards political change leadership of process providers. Finally, comprehensive programmatic implications of procedural thought for political theory are being discussed.