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When you have disciplined people, you don’t need hierarchy. When you have disciplined thought, you don’t need bureaucracy. When you have disciplined action, you don’t need excessive controls. When you combine a culture of discipline with an ethic of entrepreneurship, you create a powerful mixture that correlates with great performance.

better approach is to set high-level long-term goals, carefully manage the more predictable near future, and constantly adjust our shorter-range plans to get closer to our targets. We can adopt this approach by implementing strategy deployment described in Chapter 15. Strategy deployment takes the Improvement Kata meta-method presented in Chapter 6

Fourth, use what I call the R21E approach: “two rooms, but only one entrance.” Most firms are allowing new clients to enter either room from the outside, buying either a defined strategy plan first (their preference) or moving straight to execution (the entrance that tends to get the most use). Instead, close off the outside entrance to the larger

Had it been packed away and required 20 minutes to set up each session, or even set up in a spare room where I wouldn’t see it as often, I’m absolutely convinced that my discipline would have faltered. The perceived friction of the process is a burden on your chances of reaching your goal – you must work to remove any factor that will add a psychol

A startup canvas, its close cousins the business model canvas, and the lean canvas are intended to be lightweight tools to call out these risks early and encourage the team to tackle them up front. I much prefer the startup canvas to old‐style business plans, but I have also observed that many startup teams still spend too much time on the canvas a

It is always a good idea for the team to write and maintain a short rationale and structure document. But that document needs to be short and salient. By short, I mean one or two dozen pages at most. By salient, I mean that it should discuss the overall design rationale and only the highest-level structures in the system.