A team of 5 aligned people beats 50 people in 15 confused meetings.
Here are from Sun Tzu, translated for the boardroom and the Slack channel. Section I: Laying Plans (The Strategy Phase) 1. The five constants Before any project, assess: Mission (The Way), Market (Heaven), Terrain (Earth), Leadership (The Commander), and Discipline (Method).
Don’t build what you can borrow. Don’t hire what you can automate. Don’t research what you can partner on.
Undefended = ignored customer complaints, broken internal workflows, unasked “stupid questions.”
200 people on a CC list is not a team. It’s a crowd. Reduce the CC list. Section VII: Maneuvering (Agility) 35. The hardest thing is to turn the indirect into the direct Turn a complaint (“This process is slow”) into a win (“You just designed the new workflow”).
The One-Sentence Summary for Your Whiteboard Plan silently, move fast, care genuinely, and win by making your team so effective that the competition never even sees the battle coming. Your move, Manager.