strategy

“Like that's the deep fear why many people procrastinate on strategy, because deep down, they just, they don't know if they can formulate a good strategy. So, so time becomes a convenient excuse for us where we say, well, it's not me. It's just, I don't have ti…”

“When you are a small startup, strategy does not matter because there's not that much of strategy is about. Maybe later on, it might be a fault to think about strategy, but strategy kind of assumes that you can do multiple things at the same time, which small s…”

“The main benefit is that there's a lot of concrete action through a OKR that you don't always get from strategy. Strategy tends to be a little longer, a little more muji-muji, and then when you get the OKR, you say, this quarter is what we're actually going to…”

“In many companies, the strategy is just A roadmap on steroids. It's more plan and execute just on a grand scale.”

“The first that I end up seeing a lot is just this idea that like, okay, ours are not actually strategy. So, you know, I think the way that, that we plan and the way that our customers plan, the kind of key point is it's critical to disconnect like strategy dis…”

“It's very hard to think strategically about the situation you're in, because there isn't a science of strategy. It's not like physics. It's not like engineering, where we can write down the equations of stress on a beam and say, how thick does the beam have to…”

“These are analytical tools for analyzing the problem, for thinking about things, for looking at competition, but they're not strategy.”

“All three elements have to be there. You have to be an understanding of the situation. There has to be a guiding policy. How are we going to deal with it? And that can be a long-term sense of how we compete. I mean, you don't have to change your strategy every…”

“For a strategy, you need to exploit an asymmetry of some kind. You're a little faster. Oh, they're alone. Something has to be different between the sort of things. So that's the beginning of power is a symmetry. We can think of it as leverage.”

“My two pieces of advice to anybody that's actually trying to do this is A, state the problem, and B, don't call it a strategy. Call it an action agenda. That you're not creating a strategy. You're creating an action agenda. What are we going to do about this p…”

“In, in the, this takeoff phase in a business when, that we talked about before, when you're trying to attain competitive position, operational excellence is everything. And so, so in, if you think of not strategy, not statically endpoints like Professor Porter…”

“Even before you have product market fit, It's worth thinking about strategy. Now it's not strategy in the sense of sort of this fully articulated strategic planning. We're going to do this. These are going to be the competitors. This is going to, how we're goi…”

“Strategy involves making choices to do some things and not other things. And it is often intimidating to say, you know, oh dear, I have to cut these things off and not do them and actually make a decision that I'll be held accountable for potentially, or I'll …”

“Your experience and your strategy, remember my minivan story, is becoming a commodity.”

“Strategy is literally saying no to a bunch of things that are great ideas. It's never actually saying no to, you know, bad ideas. Like, you already weed those out.”