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How to Ruin Your Company with One Bad Process
Most execution problems are culture or strategy problems (misalignment, different strategies). Indicator: does the bandage you applied keep falling off?
Substack • Shreyas Doshi on pre-mortems, the LNO framework, the three levels of product work, why most execution problems are strategy problems, and ROI vs. opportunity cost thinking
People ask me about processes all the time. Planning processes, performance review processes, OKRs, et cetera. I think it’s because I was once a COO and people have this vision of COOs as process fiends. People who make the trains run on time. People with lots of Gantt charts all around them. I have nothing against process.1 But I think start... See more
rkg.blog • Desperation-Induced Focus
The purpose of process is…
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Ben Horowitz • The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Startups, being lean and mean, seem like the perfect place to eliminate documents, have no systems, and no processes…but that’s far from the truth. Without process it’s impossible to delegate, difficult to bring on a business partner, and easy to make mistakes. With processes in place it’s much easier to sell your product if/when you want to make a
... See moreRob Walling • Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup
Which way you run is often the key differentiator between effective and ineffective CEOs. Almost all CEOs know where the problems are, but only the truly elite ones run towards the fear.