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TBM 28/52: First Focus. Then Simplify
What I've come to recognise as core to my practice is the challenge of taking an extraordinarily complex, integrated, incomplete problem and wrapping my arms around it conceptually in a way that helps and empowers practitioners to actually do things about it.
Luke Craven • #29: On boundary objects
Can we re-frame this in terms of the customer’s problem?
What’s the soonest we could get this done?
What would you need to get this done tomorrow instead of next week?
What would we need to do to get twice as many customers? Ten times as many customers?
How does this relate to our goal? Is this the most important thing we can do for our goal?
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Operationalizing solutions is now more important than authoring new wisdom. It is telling that the graduate-level business degree is called a master’s in business administration. The problem is that administering blueprint solutions from past challenges naively underestimates the complexity of today’s world. And it leaves us ill-equipped to address
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Always find the direct route. Look for the shortest path between A—where you are—and B—where you want to be. I tend to fill my problems with unneeded complexity and junk that just takes up space. Most problems don’t need an elaborate solution. Most problems are simple.