The pitfall of Big Game thinking
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The pitfall of Big Game thinking
While it is critically important to concentrate on the smallest relevant aspects of your job without losing sight of the big picture, it is easy to become so completely overwhelmed by ongoing setbacks that you start focusing on issues completely extraneous to improvement in an attempt to keep from having to look at intractable problems.
Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison, Craig Walsh • The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
When you feel like you have to start out competing with the largest player in the market, you end up chasing your competitor’s growth instead of bettering your own offering.
Paul Jarvis • Company Of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business
Part of the problem seems to be that nobody these days is content to merely put their dent in the universe. No, they have to fucking own the universe. It’s not enough to be in the market, they have to dominate it. It’s not enough to serve customers, they have to capture them.
"Big wins tend to be accompanied by some combination of bigger decisions, more uncertainty, and greater risk.
If you want to play at a higher level, you need to be comfortable with greater swings of highs and lows: mentally, emotionally, financially.
You can avoid the swings, but you might be forced to play at a lower level."
If you want to play at a higher level, you need to be comfortable with greater swings of highs and lows: mentally, emotionally, financially.
You can avoid the swings, but you might be forced to play at a lower level."
3-2-1: Two rules for life, the power of reputation, and the peace of wild things
When the balance skews towards Compete , it is easy to lose sight of the big picture. The vision for the future devolves into questions like, "what if we had more users?" and "what if we just did more stuff?" This mindset drives products to become big, complex messes of features, leaving you wondering, "who asked for all this?" You end up wit
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We’ve greatly exaggerated the risk of sinking, without celebrating the value of swimming.