It’s been an interesting week and I just got done with a planning session with a “young” startup (as in their rev is less than 8-figures) and I wanted to tell you about the huge turnaround that happened for them from committing and doing the work.

When we first started discussing planning the team was super skeptical. In their mind, everything was changing so fast, planning felt like a waste of time and a ball and chain because didn’t that mean that suddenly they’d be beholden to some static process when shooting from the hip felt natural and fun (until it wasn’t...)?

NOT.

Or maybe somewhat true when done wrong. Which planning often is.

I did a quick FB Live on all of that—and you can check it out here.

But the important part is this: once they went through the training and followed the process, suddenly miraculous results appeared:

—Suddenly they ALL understand their core competencies

—The right projects get prioritized so results are what they need to be

—The team is working as a cohesive force

—Releases happen on time and are executed well

AND… everybody is feeling productive and guess what: happy.

(And I’m sure you know that a happy team is more productive. More productive=happy, happy=more productive. Whoa!!)

…you might want to check out the video here.

Let me know what you think.

Jus’ Saying…

Keep thinking differently.

That’s what got you here.

Simone

P.S I should have also talked about how, when you keep shooting from the hip, what seems so exciting in the beginning NEVER yields the same results than if you are proactive and how a misaligned team will cost you 100s of 1000s or even millions. But I did talk about the great free training that addresses all this in detail so if want to know more about this, go to bulletproofstartups.com and watch the presentation.