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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Haha, I actually disagree with this for a small business, because:
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One of the things I like to say is that you have to qualify for strategy.
Small companies usually die of incompetent operations, not lack of strategy, so you don’t get the luxury of thinking about strategy if you can’t execute.
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Ha, love this. Follow-up question, then: what should I read wrt operations in tiny (i.e. me) businesses. A lot of what I've read about ops starts at "so you have 5 people to coordinate", which is 4 people more than I have to work with.
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Yeah I think the ‘just pick 1-3 things that would really move the needle to focus on for each quarter’ is the most useful. Figure out a time period that works with the cadence of your business, of course.
To be honest, operations doesn’t really apply to single person businesses. I’ve found it far more useful to level up on marketing (or sales — again depending on your business!)
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