I ran into this today, deep into an internet rabbit hole. Something clicked with me.
The space between strategy and execution is typically unmanaged.
I spend time creating and articulating strategies. I spend time executing and building. But the thing I’m constantly doing is taking a strategy, assessing our standing and driving a next step — an iteration.
Every once in a while I need to pick my head up and take a pause, survey the landscape and make the next move. In these moments finding ways of keeping myself on the right path and in the right frame of mind is essential.
I’ve always been a quote collector. I wanted to take a bit of that accumulated thinking and create a set of working principles that had meaning to me.
Version one of my directions card was born.
I was reading Chris Baglieri‘s post “My Resume is Fiction” he has a simple way of explaining his method of planing where he is going each year.
Combining a little bit of the ‘write the press release first’ product management approach and analyzing the intersections of where you and your current company are going is a great way to start a new year and shape your career longer term.
This post is part of the series Four Collaborative Working Modes Take Digital Strategies to Consumer Reality.
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