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The Critical Path

When you reach a Critical Mass of Reliable Systems, Capable People and Cash Flow the ship can sail itself through all weather.

Strategy and tactics to follow the path that maintains the optimal state of flow.

Imagine how you will navigate the critical path through the idea maze to reaching critical mass.

Everyone is navigating their personal hero's journey and faced with similar challenges, doubts, triumphs and redemptions.

The epiphanies along the way are important to capture and be retold to create emotional connection when selling others on the idea that there is a path to fulfilment they too can follow.

Preparation​

Clarify goals fit with Vision and Mission with outcomes aligned to Values.

Make a cashflow forecast to contrast the value of different decision options. Supplementary value analysis:

  • Lessons from the bet/experiment
  • Enhance relationships in the team, with suppliers and the customer
  • Document insights on how to improve operations in the next cycle
  • Minimise waste

Standardisation​

Schedule Routine and Process Checks.

Product Onboarding and Education​

for the state or someone else to creating a business that runs in multiple locations with multiple revenue streams.

  • Ventures out
  • Grow a loyal base
  • Recruit

Risk Management​

Risk Analysis

Ask for forgiveness, not permission.

Planning is the process of thinking about the activities required to achieve a desired goal. Planning is based on foresight, the fundamental capacity for mental time travel. The evolution of forethought, the capacity to think ahead, is considered to have been a prime mover in human evolution

Project Management firstly requires winning bids based and accurate pricing based on building fast and detailed plans that have processes people can follow to produce predictble results.

Secondly you need teamwork. People of good character create the best teams.

Forecasting​

Plans are worthless, planning is invaluable - Winston Churchill

Predictability​

Character of People and culture of teamwork and conviction and discipline to follow best practices Processes.

Probability​

  • History
  • State
  • Future events
  • Trends

Timing​

Maintaining peak performance is not linear, pick the right frequency to push into growth and then consolidate gains.

  • Ebb and flow
  • Ambition and consolidation

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens - Ecclesiastes