Date 2021-02-14
Starting is King 📅
- Actually setting a date & time and then showing up to the meeting.
- Bonus points if you book the "goal follow-up meeting" at the end of this meeting. (I recommend every 4-6 weeks)
Growth Mindset 🧠
- View planning and prioritizing as a skill. A skill you will get better at as your start-up progresses.
- Most goals will not be met, usually this is because you learned something along the way. That's a good thing, not a bad thing.
Team buy-in 👬🏽💖
- As a Team it's really important that you’re aligned with goals you set. It's better to have 2 goals with team buy-in, than 6 goals with 0 team buy-in.
- If you’re the CEO and your problem is not the whole teams problem - it's not gonna be solved unless you can solve it yourself.
- How can you as the CEO re-define "your problem" → "Our problem"?
All important problems can be re-framed as the whole teams problems, and the CEO needs team- buy-in to get it done.
Time & focus ⌛
- As a first time founder it's really hard to estimate how long you have to work on something to reach the key result.
- If the metric (key result) is good (Users or revenue) don't change it because you didn't hit it on time.
- Explain why you didn't reach it, be open about it with the team. It's valuable knowledge for you and your team. Promote learning from eachother.
- Look at your goals often and talk about them within the team.
Lastly, focus on your inputs rather than outcomes. X amount of revenue is an outcome, contact Y customers and offer your solution at Z price is an input. Figure out what inputs drives certain outcomes, this becomes a numbers game.
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