Try Things

Sriram Krishnan hits the nail on the head with his post, Don’t be so f*king strategic.

All large companies (and I do mean all – this is not a post about Microsoft) tend to be in love with finding the right “strategy” in place before doing anything.

In the strategy consulting industry, this is close to what they call “analysis paralysis”. It is easy to get stuck in a loop searching for the ultimate strategy or design.

For big companies, analysis paralysis leads to a lot of wasted management time. For smaller companies, a lack of action can lead to wasted development and design cycles. It is important to find test projects and try random things with any spare cycles, and make that part of the strategy, than lose valuable development hours.