Join 📚 Felicity's Weekly Book Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Felicity's read, .
This section of the book explores a number of fundamental sources of power used in good strategies: leverage, proximate objectives, chain-link systems, design, focus, growth, advantage, dynamics, inertia, and entropy. Obviously, this set is not exhaustive.
Good Strategy/Bad Strategy
Richard Rumelt
How to frame tradeoffs effectively**1. Repetition doesn’t spoil the prayer**
If company leaders haven’t heard of or don’t care about your existing priorities, it’ll be inherently challenging to preserve them when an urgent request comes along. The more work that your team has done up front to bring leadership into the story of your priorities and strategy prior to this decision point, the less work your team will have to do when new requests come in.
This involves a lot of repetition of your priorities, your projects, and your strategy (in that order). As Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO, used to say, **“repetition doesn’t spoil the prayer.”**
How to Communicate Tradeoffs So Leaders Will Listen
Tara Seshan
To figure out what your North Star is, you should ask “Why are customers using my product? What is the core value they seek?”. Focus on the product and market as they are now.
Evidence-Guided
Itamar Gilad
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise