The Strategy Trap: Why focusing too much on strategy could be ki “They were worried that I would get bogged down in wanting to do things, not just create strategy.”- David Polinchock / @lbbinc One of the topics covered during the #LikeMinds Summit this past weekend was precisely this: The chasm between strategy and execution, especially as businesses struggle to understand how to leverage, integrate and operationalize Social Communications (what you do with social media platforms) in the coming 6-24 months. Unfortunately, because the C-suite tends to look to itself when it comes to “strategic masterminding,” the focus too often shifts from execution at the customer level (the most important thing a business should be focusing on on) to… being the guy who came up with the game-changing strategy that will secure more funding and increase influence within the organization. When this happens, strategy becomes a product, and that’s bad. Strategy isn’t a product. Any idiot with a powerpoint deck can deliver a “Social” strategy: Um… yeah, except… no. 1. 2. 3.
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Reader (534) Dave McClure: quotable PG @YCombinator "... [infokiosques.net] chris dixon's blog / What’s strategic for Google? Google seems to be releasing or acquiring new products almost daily. It’s one thing for a couple of programmers to hack together a side project. It’s another thing for Google to put gobs of time and money behind it. The best way to predict how committed Google will be to a given project is to figure out whether it is “strategic” or not. Google makes 99% of their revenue selling text ads for things like airplane tickets, dvd players, and malpractice lawyers. A project is strategic for Google if it affects what sits between the person clicking on an ad and the company paying for the ad. Human – device – OS – browser – bandwidth – websites – ads – ad tech – relationship to advertiser – $$$ At each layer, Google either wants to dominate it or commoditize it. Device: Desktop hardware already commoditized. OS: Not commoditized, and dominated by archenemy (Microsoft)!! Browser: Not commoditized, and dominated by arch enemy! This doesn’t mean Google will always act strategically.
Top 20 Communicators | Michael Chatman Jeffrey Solomon and Charles Bronfman, authors of The Art of Giving. Whether writing a book, giving a speech at a philanthropy forum, sitting down for a national radio or television interview, connecting with people through social media outlets or sharing their philanthropic story with investors, employees or volunteers, these Top 20 Executives, Thinkers and Experts are some of the philanthropic sector’s best communicators. There were more than 350 nominees for Top 20 Communicators in the philanthropic community, which is a little more than we expected. Philanthropy Speakers Agency’s Top 20 Communicators in Philanthropy
TechCrunch How New Ideas Almost Killed Our Startup Odysseus resisting the Sirens Vinicius Vacanti is co-founder and CEO of Yipit. Next posts on how to acquire users for free and how to raise a Series A. Don’t miss them by subscribing via email or via twitter. On my three year startup journey that lead to Yipit, I had over 30 other completely unrelated ideas. To be clear, the “ideas” I’m referring to are the ones that have nothing to do with your current startup. In our case, Yipit had always been about organizing local information and we had been working on it for a while. Social version of delicious (summer of 2007)Tool to recommend the best version of the online video you were currently watching (spring 2008)140it.com: Bookmarklett that smartly shortens your tweet to less than 140 characters. I now think of these new ideas as the Sirens of the startup journey. The Temptation To understand why these new ideas can be so tempting, I refer you to the incredibly insightful startup transition cycle. The Danger The Solution
Got the same idea. Will working on it ,-) by politicus Apr 10
Would be much better to have this in a pearltree... especially when considering the time it took for the author to collect all this in a pearltree by Patrice Dec 27