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You’re the general. So, make your strategic plan!

Berkonomics

The structure combines the listing of your goal with a series of strategies and then tactics, each designed to support each other, each measurable and made public throughout the organization. Email readers, continue here…] Here are some example strategies from some of my companies over the recent years. Let’s call it “OST.”

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Is ‘servant leadership’ too soft for you?

Berkonomics

Email readers, continue here…] You are not alone. Steve Jobs, who was known to be in charge of each detail in design. Elon Musk, who obsesses with metrics and constantly asks for employees to feed him their concerns but makes bold moves on his own. Doesn’t sound tough or forceful enough for you? .

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What is your biggest error in company planning?

Berkonomics

It is most often missed assumptions about the market, the competition, the speed of adoption, or other critical metrics you’ve researched, or selected, or even just guessed at to create your plan. That’s likely to be completely unreachable for you with almost any amount of resources. Sources for your data. TAM, SAM, SOM?

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Think like a general! Create strategies and tactics now.

Berkonomics

The structure combined the listing of the goal with a series of strategies and then tactics, each designed to support each other, each measurable and made public throughout the organization. What is a strategy? Penetrate the Fortune 500 with at least five active accounts within two years. Yet each is measurable if achieved.

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Accurate assumptions lead to defendable plans

Berkonomics

It is most often missed assumptions about the market, the competition, the speed of adoption, or other critical metrics you’ve researched, or selected, or even just guessed at to create your plan. Email readers, continue here.] Where did you get the data to drive your assumptions of market size or market share?

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Document Your MVP for a Developer

SoCal CTO

In fact, let me provide an important warning: If you create these documents, don't have input from a technical resource, take it to a development shop and they provide you a price. Go find a new technical resource. Just make note of it in the document and/or in an email when you send it. Quite often these things get old quickly.

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Is ‘servant leadership’ too soft for today’s workforce?

Berkonomics

Steve Jobs, who was known to be in charge of each detail in design. Elon Musk, who obsesses with metrics and constantly asks for employees to feed him their concerns but makes bold moves on his own. It is a very thin line between abdication of responsibility and participative leadership. The world loves bold leadership.