“Planning is valuable, though the plan is usually useless.” - Ben Horowitz
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“Planning is valuable, though the plan is usually useless.” - Ben Horowitz
Setting up a proper business plan seems like a good first step. It’s good to set goals and boundaries. It’s smart to outline exactly what you're aiming for.
But once you actually start the ball rolling, you’ll quickly realize some of your carefully laid out plans get lost in practice.
Sometimes the “doing” further reveals?what needs to be done.
Immediate goals might have to be pushed off towards a later milestone.
The boundaries may shrink or expand in areas you hadn’t accounted for. The original plan might go awry or be abandoned altogether.
But the fact that you made one in the first place is important. It’s good to streamline your thoughts and hopes for the process. Just don’t be so married to an idea. It may stifle you from branching out into what you need organically.
Planning is a valuable tool, but don’t limit your toolbox.
Mark November
I prefer an ISO 9001 like process that builds structure in implementing a mission statement. It provides a structure that smooths scaling and the integrating of new members to the team. Walk around management is important as well, but things need to be documented or much is quickly forgotten. The alternative is sometimes called tribal knowledge, but I tend to use the word anarchy. Even cave men drew pictures on cave walls.
Technical Recruiter / Management Advisor
1 年How true... Great advice based on hard-won experience from one of the brightest people I've known... Ben was way ahead of the pack even back in 1993, when I sourced and placed him at Lotus/cc:Mail / IBM as a dark horse TPM destined for greatness...
AI/ML & Hyperautomation | Software & Cloud Architecture | VP of Engineering | Data Engineering | Author | Advisor
1 年For anyone looking to pitch, I highly recommend watching this YouTube video Podcast with Mark November on Unriveted. https://youtu.be/GunOjQCacU0