The Secret to a Great Planning Process - Lessons from Airbnb and Eventbrite
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The Secret to a Great Planning Process - Lessons from Airbnb and Eventbrite
The act of writing a strategy leads folks through a systematic analysis, so, even if we don’t share them, writing these documents helps us work through quite a few challenges, both overwhelming and mundane.
Will Larson • An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
Throughout this process, it’s essential that you get your team’s input before finalizing anything. You most likely missed something along the way, and your team won’t feel bought-in if they don’t have a chance to share their perspective.
Lenny Rachitsky • Prioritizing - By Lenny Rachitsky - Lenny's Newsletter
One shift that can help us all is to change our minds about planning. Like search, planning is a literacy that’s not taught in school, and yet it’s a key to success in life and work. We plan events, trips, families, sites, systems, companies, and cities. We do it all the time but make the same mistakes. First, we procrastinate. We fear complexity,
... See morePeter Morville • Intertwingled: Information Changes Everything
Achieving strategic clarity is hard. It takes asking tough questions about tradeoffs, deep concentration to get to the very essence of the issues and real courage to cut off competing priorities. It is worth the effort because with real clarity, people, teams and organizations can fully mobilize, break through to the next level and achieve somethin... See more
on June 7 • If I Read One More Platitude-Filled Mission Statement, I'll Scream - Greg McKeown
Having developed a common image of current reality, the team moves on to consider its strategic priorities. What are the primary areas of leverage? What action needs to be taken? And in the context of high-leverage actions, what decisions need to be made about funding? Now, and only now, the spreadsheet can emerge, to take the vision for the compan
... See moreArt Kleiner • The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies for Building a Learning Organization
SETTING CLEAR AND ACTIONABLE GOALS It’s important for leaders to lay out objectives clearly, so team members know exactly what they need to accomplish. The goal should be broken down into smaller, interim milestones, with a focus on early wins to build momentum. Progress should be tracked to ensure small wins don’t go unnoticed. In my companies we
... See moreSteven Bartlett • The Diary of a CEO: The 33 Laws of Business and Life
for product leaders around the world, that means going for a long swim in the sea of ambiguity every morning. They’re searching for the rigor of process, but it can’t always be found. As leaders, we need to understand that the rigor is not going to come from the process, but from an understanding of the context and the team — something that takes a
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