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Work on the Business, Not in the Business
The corrective to a founder's default state of urgency.
How it works
- 1The default founder state is deep in urgent things: the customer call, the moaning employee, the hire, the bill, the bank.
- 2All of it is genuinely important, which is exactly why it eats strategy.
- 3The corrective is a rolling 30, 60, 90 day plan you can edit, argue with, and tick off.
- 4The output should be a top three, not a top 37.
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