Strategy: Long-term planning
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Long-term planning
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Four rules billionaires use to make failure near-impossible
Dan Martell
November 4, 2024
Long-term planning
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Goal setting
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Risk management
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- Sales, networking, leadership, and vision are the highest-leverage foundational skills
- Split any windfall 50/50: boring safe assets and high-risk bets
- Short-term generosity and a 10-year horizon beat chasing quick wins
Long-term planning
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17 business principles every entrepreneur should know earlier
Dan Martell
October 25, 2024
Long-term planning
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Delegation
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Pricing strategy
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- Choosing a growing industry beats working harder in a dying one
- Raise prices every six months — stale pricing silently kills margins
- 80% done by someone else is always better than 100% done by you
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Why annual planning fails and a better 3-year quarterly system
Ryan Deiss
October 24, 2024
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Project management
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- Annual planning is too long, too short, and done at peak optimism
- 3-year cycles with quarterly milestones replace vague yearly goals
- 90-day sprints with three metrics, pillars, and projects keep teams aligned
Long-term planning
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Founder regrets, delegation, agency vs. DIY, and ICP decisions at six to seven figures
Startups For the Rest of Us
October 22, 2024
Long-term planning
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Outsourcing & delegation
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Delegation
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- Social media rarely drives SaaS revenue — drop it entirely
- Hire channel specialists to get clean signal on what works
- Charge enterprises enough to make the sales cycle worthwhile
Eight levels of SaaS platform risk: a framework for founders
Startups For the Rest of Us
October 15, 2024
Business models
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Long-term planning
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- Shopify and Twitter are the highest risk: no replacement, total dependency.
- Losing Google SEO rankings is more existential than any cloud provider outage.
- No-code platforms carry hidden risk: no code export, can 10x pricing overnight.
Why every entrepreneur needs a vivid vision
Cameron Herold
September 30, 2024
Vision & mission
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Culture building
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Long-term planning
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- A clear written vision lets strangers build exactly what you imagined.
- Three years is the sweet spot — one year too close, ten too far.
- Sharing the vision filters out misaligned employees before they cause drag.
Long-term planning
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EA's path to a billion gamers: AI, community, and the future of entertainment
Masters of Scale
September 24, 2024
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Business models
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AI strategy & adoption
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- AI cut a three-year dev cycle to make 11,000 real college athletes possible
- EA's FIFA exit shows owning your brand beats sharing it
- Gaming IP will rival Marvel within a decade — Wilson explains why
Long-term planning
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Risk, Intuition, and the Edge Between Prudence and Boldness
The Daily Stoic
September 11, 2024
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Resilience & grit
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- Winner's tilt after success is as dangerous as tilt after losses.
- Intuition is powerful — but only when you have genuine experience to draw on.
- Being right about one contrarian bet can corrupt your judgment permanently.
Long-term planning
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Why the decisions we make today will shape humanity for centuries
Masters of Scale
September 10, 2024
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Resilience & grit
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Decision-making
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- Your brain treats your future self like a stranger.
- AI is being built for ads, not planetary flourishing.
- Three practices that make long-term thinking a daily habit.
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Should you scale your business beyond hero status?
EOS Worldwide
September 8, 2024
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Identity & self-belief
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- Building a $10M business already makes you a hero.
- Act three — the biggest leap — is optional, not inevitable.
- The real question: do you want to risk it all again?
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How to run an effective annual strategy and planning session
Bill Gallagher
August 20, 2024
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Management
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- Trying to facilitate your own planning session limits your thinking
- Off-site location and shared experiences unlock bigger strategic ideas
- Revisit BHAG, vivid vision, and seven strata before setting quarterly plans
Long-term planning
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PM craft: decision logs, unsell emails, and automating user research
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
August 18, 2024
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Management
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Customer discovery
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- Product sense is just decision-making under uncertainty — practice it deliberately.
- Send candidates an honest 'unsell email' before they sign the offer.
- Automate a stream of real customer calls using Gong, Zapier, and Calendly.
How to build and share a vivid vision for your company
Cameron Herold
August 17, 2024
Vision & mission
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Culture building
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Long-term planning
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- Share your vision publicly — silence kills alignment faster than competition
- Three years is the only timeframe that creates real tension without paralysis
- Core values are only real if you hire and fire on them
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How to conduct a gap analysis to close organisational shortfalls
HR Party of One
August 6, 2024
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Processes & SOPs
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- Gaps found after deadlines are gaps you can no longer fix
- Four gap types: market, strategic, profit, and skills
- A four-step process turns findings into a concrete action plan
Competitive analysis
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Five essential questions to craft a winning strategy
Lenny's Podcast Product Career Growth
July 25, 2024
Competitive analysis
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Long-term planning
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Business models
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- Answer five interconnected questions to build defensible competitive advantage through integrated choice-making.
- Only two sustainable ways to win: lowest cost or differentiated—middle ground means competitors bully you indefinitely.
- Multifaceted capabilities and management systems create moats competitors won't attempt to replicate.