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5 Oct 2023 Lenny's Podcast Brian Balfour: 10 lessons on career, growth, and life
“Whereas I think in a lot of planning processes, you get those things out really fast, and then 80% of the process is churning on the last little bits that ultimately don't matter in the end.”
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- Brian Balfour
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- 5 Oct 2023
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- Lenny's Podcast
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…Right. Whereas I think in a lot of planning processes, you get those things out really fast, and then 80% of the process is churning on the last little bits that ultimately don't matter in the end. And I think that's the piece that feels just awful to the team, and it makes these things drag on for a really long time; it's also what gets people really attached to the plan and more upset when you ultimately do change things, like you were saying. So I think that's why you need to find methods to just get those big chunks out incredibly quickly and then move on, right? Like, "Hey, move on. Start shipping, start iterating towards that ideal end state." Because that's going to help you update whatever that new ideal end state will be in the future. There's all these bonus lessons that are coming up as we're going through these lessons, but just to close the loop on this lesson, it was 'tell me what it takes to win and then tell me the costs.'…
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