Metadata
- Author: John Cutler
- Full Title:: TBM 350: Connecting Dots
- Category:: 🗞️Articles
- Document Tags:: Prioritization Techniques,
- URL:: https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-350-connecting-dots
- Read date:: 2025-04-11
Highlights
There’s always a tension in companies between two real, important needs: • The ability to connect the dots, “see the big picture,” compare things apples-to-apples, make smart tradeoffs, quantify investments and returns, and understand the business’s overall health. • The ability to encourage and support local variation—to let teams work in ways that make sense for their context, problem space, and maturity. (View Highlight)
Be very selective about what you centralize and attempt to make consistent. (View Highlight)
(Frankly, some companies have the opposite problem—they wallow in chaos because they aren’t willing to admit that a little centralization might help.) (View Highlight)