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🍣 Strategy is nothing without this small (but huge) thing
- strategy is often set by one group of people, but needs to be recalled by another. Strategy is memory. The problem is memory is fickle (our brains rewrite our memories to situate the present in the past), memory is subjective (the Rashoman Effect), and memory is held by people.
When careers and job tenures were longer this worked. An organization’s ... See morefrom LF05 - Strategy is Memory by Tom Critchlow
Keely Adler added
- Remind people over and over : Don’t expect anyone to remember any part of the strategy. Remind your team, and stakeholders, at every opportunity — every all-hands, every update email, every review meeting.
- All prioritization should go through your strategy : One of the main goals of a strategy is to create focus — to know what NOT to do. Continue
from Getting better at product strategy by Lenny Rachitsky
Sarah Wong added
The fundamental problem is that I don't know when I’m going to need a particular fact, quote, or idea again. So all of these strategies are aimed at either improving my memory to keep them top of mind, or creating an organizational strategy that makes sure I bump into them later when I need them.
from GPT-4: A Copilot for the Mind by Dan Shipper
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