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People overseeing departments need to be able to think strategically as well as run the day-to-day. If they don’t anticipate what’s coming up, they’ll run the day-to-day off a cliff.

Principles

Ray Dalio

As the “Get” customers exercise clearly illustrates, getting a new customer is an expensive process. Thus it’s important to think now about how the company will keep, or retain, customers it’s worked so hard to get. When customers cancel a subscription, never return to a supermarket, or close a corporate purchasing account, it’s called “churn” or “attrition” (the opposite of retention!).

The Startup Owner's Manual

Steve Blank, Bob Dorf

Everyone makes mistakes. The main difference is that successful people learn from them and unsuccessful people don’t.

Principles

Ray Dalio

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