Strategy

The best way to improve your ability to think is to spend time thinking.

One way to force yourself to slow down and think is to write. Good writing requires good thinking.

Clear writing gives poor thinking nowhere to hide, making a lack of understanding visible.

What happens on the outside is strategy, what happens on the inside is action.

The right strategy doesn’t always offer immediate rewards.

whenever something isn’t working, I put my best A players on it immediately because I want to decide as fast as possible whether it’s an execution problem or an idea problem.

It almost always seems expensive to act with the long term in mind, which is why so few people do it.

Ideas are cheap. Execution is expensive. The ability to execute separates people, not the ability to come up with ideas.

Good thinking is expensive. Bad thinking costs a fortune.

One way to force yourself to think is to write. Good writing requires good thinking.

Forcing yourself to make your thinking visible gives poor thinking nowhere to hide. You can’t simply take a few minutes here and there, get the gist of the problem, and expect to have clear writing. It doesn’t... See more