~ analysis paralysis is dangerous in strategy searching
One reason that we avoid choosing a strategy is that we’re not comfortable walking away from all the other possible strategies. Rather than celebrate the paths not taken, we take no path at all.
— 📖 This Is Strategy
~ ask﹕ who are you seeking to change﹖
— This is Marketing
~ start painful projects with half an hour of brainstorming
brainstorming under a tree is romantic, and therefore much easier to actually do.
Crystal Ball Technique
imagine that something has gone wrong, analyze why
Next, try this exercise another way. Take out another piece of paper and sit back in your chair. Think about the plan for gathering the team members together. How nice that the schedules all fit together. But now we are going to look into a crystal ball to see the future and . . . we see that the plan was a fiasco. The meeting never happened. The project lost direction and acquired a black eye. Unfortunately, the crystal ball doesn’t show why the meeting got derailed.
— 📖 Power of Full Engagement
~ find 30 solutions in 5 minutes
— struthless