5-Bit Fridays: Doing things right vs doing the right thing, simplicity scales; complexity fails, and your untapped growth lever
Jaryd Hermannhowtheygrow.co
5-Bit Fridays: Doing things right vs doing the right thing, simplicity scales; complexity fails, and your untapped growth lever
Doing just one thing means you can: try more experiments in pursuit of success, meaning you learn and iterate faster; keep communications overhead lean by hiring fewer people and keeping the task list short; get your most senior leaders personally involved in projects, reducing power distance and minimizing the time required to make crucial decisio
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My advice is to concentrate on deepening and extending a strategic position rather than broadening and ultimately compromising it. Here are some thoughts about how to grow profitably without destroying your strategy. First, never copy.
Joan Magretta • Understanding Michael Porter: The Essential Guide to Competition and Strategy
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Especially now, when AI can build your software in days instead of months and social platforms give you free distribution to millions. The barriers that used to make "just doing things" hard have collapsed.
We've created this elaborate mythology around building companies - frameworks, methodologies, validation processes, pitch decks, investor relati... See more
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GREG ISENBERG • Tweet
Prioritize work to minimize opportunity cost. This prevents you from only pursuing incremental futures. In each quarter how much time to allocate incremental ~ 60%, to big new initiatives ~30%, to guidance & infrastructure ~10%.