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Getting better at product strategy
The Secret to a Great Planning Process - Lessons from Airbnb and Eventbrite
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A great strategy is not just a plan or wishful thinking—it's a roadmap to winning, and it holds these characteristics:
Simple: Simplifies complexity, making it manageable and actionable
Candid: Confronts difficult realities
Decisive: Asserts clear decisions and accepts their consequences
Leveraged: Leverages strengths to create durable competitive adva... See more
Simple: Simplifies complexity, making it manageable and actionable
Candid: Confronts difficult realities
Decisive: Asserts clear decisions and accepts their consequences
Leveraged: Leverages strengths to create durable competitive adva... See more
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Third, avoid the bright, shiny distractions that abound. Don’t spend days on mission statements; don’t start with goals in strategy work. Don’t confuse management tools with strategy, and don’t get too caught up in the ninety-day chase around quarterly earnings results.
Richard P. Rumelt • The Crux: How Leaders Become Strategists
we always hope that a brilliant insight or very clever design will allow us to accomplish several apparently conflicting objectives with a single stroke, and occasionally we are vouchsafed this kind of deliverance. Nevertheless, strategy is primarily about deciding what is truly important and focusing resources and action on that objective. It is a
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