What are your favorite books and papers on setting strategy for (tiny) businesses? Choosing what to work on for longer than a couple of days, weighing opportunity costs and risks, placing bets? Not "vision or goal setting", not project management – the meso-layer between them.
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My operating thing is: understand that at any given time period (adjust this to your business) you really only need to get 1-3 things very right. Focus on this to the exclusion of everything else.
This is easier said than done, because:
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(That is, things WILL blow up, but you need to be able to let them blow up.)
’s complete framework is of course far better: docs.google.com/document/d/1bj