🔥 Hot Take Alert #4: Annual Planning Is a Colossal Waste of Time
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🔥 Hot Take Alert #4: Annual Planning Is a Colossal Waste of Time
How to Take Bigger, Bolder Product Bets — Lessons From Slack’s Chief Product Officer
Noah Desai Weissreview.firstround.com
There is a balance between focusing too much on either the short term or the long term. The key to me is having two documents. The first—at Stripe, we’re calling them charters—articulates the long-term view of why this team or this product or this company exists, what its overarching strategy is, and what success would look like over even a three-t
... See moreElad Gil • High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups From 10 to 10,000 People
Use whichever tactic will best help your company avoid being reactive only to short-term needs or internal lobbying. The overall goal is to develop a more disciplined approach to planning and resource allocation, however you achieve that.
Claire Hughes Johnson • Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
Instinct. Prototype. Derisk. Decide.
Sharpen thinking over time as you iterate to get clearer on the value you provide
Annual checkin…
If you were to build it today what would we build… what is the dinner / elevator pitch. And what is keeping us from getting there right now.
Quarterly checkin.
Here is what we’re working on. You control priority. What va
... See moreEvery start-up has less resources than they need, so strategic planning is essential at all stages