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*Staff Engineer* introduces an approach I call [Take five, then synthesize](https://lethain.us20.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f7003ed301623a88fab7cf783&id=1e5e9d0544&e=a102c6f471), which does strategy by:
1. Documenting how five current and historical related decisions have been made in your organization. This is an extended exploration phase
2. Synthesizing those five documents into a diagnosis and policy. You are naming the implicit strategy, so it’s impossible for someone to reasonably argue you’re not empowered to do strategy: you’re just describing what’s already happening
Who Gets to Do Strategy? @ Irrational Exuberance
Will Larson
Level 1: Conscious vs Unconscious My personal belief is that every single person on the internet, whether they realize it or not, is playing “the game.” The game is simple. When you post a piece of content—whether it’s a picture of you and your family on Facebook, or a video of you jumping into a pool in a bikini on Instagram, or a link to a New York Times article on LinkedIn—you are sharing a part of yourself at scale. The more you share, the more people learn about you. The more people learn about you, the more conversations happen, the more opportunities present themselves, and the more a scalable digital version of your real-life self begins to crystalize on the internet.
The Art and Business of Online Writing
Nicolas Cole
I would argue, however, that everything can be measurable in some way — just not quantitatively. Quantitative measurement flattens the object of measurement down to simplistic dimensions. EPS measures profitability — but in a simplistic way. NPS measures customer satisfaction — but in a simplistic way. The business world has accepted this imperative for simplistic evaluation because of its obsession with measurement. But it produces a very low-resolution understanding of the thing in question.
Measuring, Managing & Mattering
Roger Martin
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