Strategy: Long-term planning
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Building an invincible company through explore and exploit
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Business models
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Long-term planning
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Processes & SOPs
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- Innovation is a search problem — run many bets, kill most early.
- Evidence across four risk dimensions beats ideas on a spreadsheet.
- CEO spending 40%+ of time on innovation is the decisive signal.
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How to make better decisions by removing bias from the process
Coaching for Leaders
July 22, 2024
Long-term planning
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Management
7
Deep work & focus
5
- Judging decisions by outcomes is systematically wrong — here's why.
- Pros/cons lists amplify bias; probability mapping removes it.
- Independent pre-meeting input stops teams collapsing into one opinion.
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How to write quarterly priorities that drive consistent action
Bill Gallagher
July 2, 2024
Long-term planning
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Processes & SOPs
6
- Vague priorities like 'boost marketing' fail — specificity drives execution.
- Every priority needs a verb, a metric, one owner, and a date.
- Annual initiatives and quarterly priorities are distinct layers of planning.
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Set priorities from your future goals, not current problems
Bill Gallagher
June 25, 2024
Long-term planning
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Goal setting
6
- Current problems are past-rooted — don't let them set your agenda
- Work backwards from a 10-year vision to quarterly priorities
- Long-standing pain points are often things to cut, not fix
Long-term planning
Podcast
J. Paul Getty's principles for building lasting business wealth
Founders
June 23, 2024
Long-term planning
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Resilience & grit
8
Processes & SOPs
6
- No fast formulas: wealth comes from decades of disciplined ownership
- Align incentives so employees think like owners, not employees
- Non-conformity is the most priceless quality a businessman can possess
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How WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert is scaling women's basketball
Masters of Scale
May 7, 2024
Long-term planning
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Growth hacking
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Management
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- Why Caitlin Clark's arrival is a once-in-a-generation commercial opportunity
- Pay disparity is real — but total comp tells a different story
- Crisis after crisis forged Engelbert's bold, scenario-first leadership style
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Seven counterintuitive rules for early-stage business growth
KeyPersonOfInfluence
May 5, 2024
Long-term planning
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Cash flow management
8
Goal setting
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- Spending money well beats saving it when you're small
- Cash at bank is the only number that matters early on
- Do unscalable things first — automation comes later
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Why short-term thinking threatens humanity's long-term survival
Masters of Scale
April 4, 2024
Long-term planning
9
Vision & mission
6
Goal setting
5
- Your brain treats your future self like a stranger — neuroscience explains why
- AI is an Oppenheimer moment; power sits with a tiny group
- Three practices that shift your decisions toward future generations
How to write and roll out a Vivid Vision for your company
Cameron Herold
March 13, 2024
Vision & mission
9
Culture building
6
Long-term planning
5
- Why a one-sentence vision statement will never align your team
- Three years is the only horizon that creates real momentum
- Roll out to leadership first, customers last — order matters
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A step-by-step roadmap from startup to £15 million business
KeyPersonOfInfluence
March 10, 2024
Long-term planning
10
Scaling infrastructure
7
Management
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- Why growing past 12 people can make your business less profitable
- The lifestyle boutique model that beats a traditional small business
- What separates a high-margin performance business from a soulless factory
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Podcast
Building a million-dollar business to finance a deep life
Deep Questions with Cal Newport
March 4, 2024
Long-term planning
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Identity & self-belief
8
Customer discovery
7
- Your freedom number is probably lower than you think.
- Real courage means asking one person to pay you today.
- Doubling down on what works beats chasing new ideas.
Long-term planning
Podcast
Playing the long game: how compounding work and skills build a career
Startups For the Rest of Us
February 13, 2024
Long-term planning
9
Motivation
7
SEO
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- Why short-term thinking is a bootstrapper's superpower and weakness
- Blogging for free since 2005 led to a seven-figure angel investment opportunity
- The signal you're playing the right game: you've done it for years, for free
Philip Morris International's bet on a smoke-free future
EO
February 7, 2024
Pivoting
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Management
7
Long-term planning
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- PMI predicts cigarettes will vanish within 10 years
- IQOS already converted 20 million smokers away from combustion
- Acting on 60–70% conviction, not certainty, drives transformation
Long-term planning
Podcast
Napoleon's military maxims applied to building a company
Founders
February 5, 2024
Long-term planning
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Resilience & grit
7
Management
6
- Plan carefully, then commit completely — hesitation loses everything
- Speed multiplies strength; smaller companies must outthink, not outmuscle
- Studying history gives founders leverage no competitor who ignores it can match
Long-term planning
Podcast
How Brad Jacobs built seven billion-dollar companies from scratch
Founders
January 23, 2024
Long-term planning
9
Resilience & grit
8
Hiring & recruitment
8
- Why treating problems as assets — not obstacles — drives outsized returns
- Getting the major trend right matters more than avoiding every mistake
- It is nearly impossible to overpay for A-player talent