Ruthless prioritization: A startup’s best friend
What does a poor Product Strategy Stack feel like?DIFFICULTY PRIORITIZING
Ravi Mehta • The Product Strategy Stack — Reforge
It is the hard craft of strategy to decide which priority shall take precedence.
Richard Rumelt • Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters
Good work habits are vastly underrated. People who push through successfully have to-do lists that are reasonably prioritized, and they make certain each item is ticked off in order.
Ray Dalio • Principles: Life and Work
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%.
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
K E Y I N S I G H T : It’s not that you can choose the important things over things that are not important. The “Ruthless” part comes in when you prioritize the vitally important “Can’t Fails” over other really important things.