The big picture is hiding in the details.
Scott Adams
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The big picture is hiding in the details. Scott Adams
Stuck on a problem you can’t solve? Go bigger. Expand it. Make it giant. Do not try to contain it, or simplify it, or reduce it. Make it so large that you can begin to see a new pattern. Solve the larger problem and the smaller one will get solved along the way.
Brian Collins • 101 Design Rules
A great deal of strategy work is trying to figure out what is going on. Not just deciding what to do, but the more fundamental problem of comprehending the situation.
Richard Rumelt • Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters
In every set of facts, something essential is hidden. And a good journalist knows that finding it involves exploring those pieces of information and figuring out the relationships between them
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
See the big picture
Gorick Ng • The Unspoken Rules: Secrets to Starting Your Career Off Right
This is the trick to telling a big story: it cannot be about anything big. Instead we must find the small, relatable, comprehensible moments in our larger stories. We must find the piece of the story that people can connect to, relate to, and understand.
Dan Kennedy • Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling
“My goal,” she said, “was to understand the ‘spiderweb’ of the story because that is what allowed me to spot any ‘abnormal’ or ‘unusual’ detail or behavior that didn’t quite fit into the natural course of the story.”
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Ironically, the way to go big is to focus small. You are more likely to discover what will go big by focusing on individual use cases.
Brant Cooper • The Lean Entrepreneur: How Visionaries Create Products, Innovate with New Ventures, and Disrupt Markets
think big and execute small.