Simon Joliveau Breney
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Simon Joliveau Breney
When something isn’t getting done, it’s because the person a) doesn’t have the time b) doesn’t have the skill or c) has some sort of psychological block. The third case is surprisingly common. After a few slips with someone I trusted, I’d just ask directly. “I noticed this work isn’t being pushed forward at the rate I expected or at the quality you
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To make something good, just do it. To make something great, just redo it, redo it, redo it. The secret to making fine things is in remaking them.
Kevin Kelly • 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice
- Never stop learning. Continuously invest in skill development and process improvements. Practice a growth mindset.
Phil Peron • Managing Your Product Playbook
“if we can recognise that change and uncertainty are basic principles,” as the futurist and environmentalist Hazel Henderson put it, “we can greet the future… with the understanding that we do not know enough to be pessimistic .” You can take a crisis very seriously indeed without fooling yourself that you know the worst outcome is certain.
Simon Joliveau • Fwd: The Imperfectionist: Three Ideas for Turbulent Times
Netflix has defaulted to the most expensive plan, and used just about every dimension of the table to emphasize that choice is the best one:
• It has a much better color schema
• Lots of bullets on why that plan is best
• That plan is default and on the left, not the right
Aakash Gupta • Ultimate Guide: Pricing Pages
A very basic three-category scale of Urgency could go something like this:
• “ASAP” represents the highest band of urgency. If we don’t deliver this ASAP, then the value (whatever total value that might be) will quickly evaporate – someone will get there before us or the opportunity (however big or small) will be massively impaired.
• “Soon”
Joe Smith • Qualitative Cost of Delay
The five essentials ingredients to any company strategy document are:
Mission - What are you meant to achieve
Vision - What does it look like once you’ve achieved it
Goal - How do you concretely know you’ve achieved it
Strategy - What is the path to achieving it
Strategic pillars - Three to five key bets that the company needs to make
review.firstround.com • The Secret to a Great Planning Process - Lessons from Airbnb and Eventbrite
Simplicity is difficult because most of us are overcompensating for uncertainty. Adding something is easy. But removing something is hard, because it requires conviction. It’s easier to hedge against uncertainty, entertain multiple paths, and dilute your focus than to develop a strong opinion about what to exclude.