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The right people in the right room Most tasks on most task lists are not tasks - they are wishes or outcomes Prioritising outcomes is easy. Do we get five new
by lifeisstillgood 4y ago
The right people in the right room
Most tasks on most task lists are not tasks - they are wishes or outcomes
Prioritising outcomes is easy. Do we get five new corporate customers this month or do we build a web scaling system on AWS.
One is a task, one is an unknown project with no clear definitions or starting process. Which is why many startups have great infrastructure and not enough customers.
So, unless you know which right people to put in a room, the thing in front of you is not a task it's an investigation.
And to me this answers the question a few days back about sam altmann - determination is what gets you from "get five customers" to "call bob smith of company X after Joe Schmoe introduces us and offer him a 12 month for price of 6 deal if they sign this week"
Determination is of course made easier with contacts but politicians will politician
- csomar 4y ago> One is a task, one is an unknown project with no clear definitions or starting process. Which is why many startups have great infrastructure and not enough customers. It's interesting that I worked with a company that had a strong sales department but a weak (or non existent?) IT department. Getting five new corporate customers was a task for them. But setting up an AWS EC2 instance with an RDS server? That was an investigation that is requiring a trip to Singapore.