Love this topic and thanks for the invite to participate. First off..I want to hear more about this tool Executive Review. I had been thinking Amazon would implement something like this...makes a lot of sense but wasn't sure how they would do it in a smart manner.
Secondly, I think the Past i.e Your Experience is a great lever. Use it to learn from (good or bad) and become a better version of yourself or deliver better projects.
In terms of priority...I would say People (hiring Leadership Coaches, ahem 😃) and Time are the 2 most important.
This is so fascinating! Do you think the doc quality has improved since this tool has been implemented? Or are they the same quality, just less revisions needed?
I haven't noticed a lot of difference with the docs yet - it hasn't been too long since the tool rolled out, so the use is not widespread yet.
Where I have seen the most timesaving now is editing text paragraphs. E.g. I need to trim 1 page to 15 lines, I ask AI to do this and then edit the result - done in five minutes what probably would have taken 20 min before.
AI agenta are also getting to be an evolution of the wiki: instead of searching through multiple wikis which may be outdated, you ask AI agent the team has created and get a proper response in 10 seconds.
Thank you for your thoughts, this is very interesting!
Past experience can be put into the Knowledge category. It becomes more leveraged, if you reflected on it: what have you learnt, what can you do differently next time. Applying this to a particular problem or personal challenge through a bunch of iterations, can be very powerful.
I have a feeling that a person would rate their strengths as the strongest levers. "People" seems to be the strongest lever in my "mini feedback" group. Probably skewed by the fact that I am getting feedback from leaders who managed smart people for years and have seen the magic :)
To the contrary, Naval Ravikant says that People is "the messiest" form of leverage and recommends to use others.
Let me put another doc through the Exec Review and I let you know more about it. I have a couple of real VP reviews coming up :)
I think there’s a missing lever: the choice of goal.
Arguably it’s not a lever, but something else :-)
What I mean is that there are some things that I have spent energy trying to do, but no matter what I do, there are headwinds that hold me back, while when I change direction, the going becomes easy.
A classic example of this is the startup trying to create an entirely new category. It’s easier to build a business which is familiar to customers with an improvement than to start in an entirely green market.
You are touching on a few interesting things there: choice of the goal/direction and innovation in a startup world.
I would classify "the choice of goal" not as a lever, but as a result, the Earth that you are trying to lift. "What are we trying to achieve?" is a powerful question to examine if you are going after the right goal. It can save a lot of effort!
In case of startups, there are many more levers. Startup ecosystem, government incentives, startup accelerators are all levers - there is a reason Silicon valley have been successful in creating unicorns as it has many things that startups can leverage. But I am not after startup leverage, I am more after personal leverage :)
This is true. Honing the lever only makes sense once you have found the right goal to focus on. That's why the advice on the beginning: do non-scalable things. This helps to figure out the right goal.
Love this topic and thanks for the invite to participate. First off..I want to hear more about this tool Executive Review. I had been thinking Amazon would implement something like this...makes a lot of sense but wasn't sure how they would do it in a smart manner.
Secondly, I think the Past i.e Your Experience is a great lever. Use it to learn from (good or bad) and become a better version of yourself or deliver better projects.
In terms of priority...I would say People (hiring Leadership Coaches, ahem 😃) and Time are the 2 most important.
The Exec Review tool is an app built on top of PartyRock. It dissects the doc from multiple perspectives:
(1) Analyses the focus of the document and assesses its clarity, gives you suggestions on how to make it sharper
(2) Suggests changes to the overall structure
(3) Pokes holes at the doc and tells you what may be missing
(4) Gives you 20 questions senior execs may ask about your doc
(5) Proposes a few innovative ideas based on the content
(6) Allows you to ask it questions, so you can prompt and ask for any suggestions and improvements that it hasn't covered above.
This is so fascinating! Do you think the doc quality has improved since this tool has been implemented? Or are they the same quality, just less revisions needed?
I haven't noticed a lot of difference with the docs yet - it hasn't been too long since the tool rolled out, so the use is not widespread yet.
Where I have seen the most timesaving now is editing text paragraphs. E.g. I need to trim 1 page to 15 lines, I ask AI to do this and then edit the result - done in five minutes what probably would have taken 20 min before.
AI agenta are also getting to be an evolution of the wiki: instead of searching through multiple wikis which may be outdated, you ask AI agent the team has created and get a proper response in 10 seconds.
Early days - so much potential ahead!
Thank you for your thoughts, this is very interesting!
Past experience can be put into the Knowledge category. It becomes more leveraged, if you reflected on it: what have you learnt, what can you do differently next time. Applying this to a particular problem or personal challenge through a bunch of iterations, can be very powerful.
I have a feeling that a person would rate their strengths as the strongest levers. "People" seems to be the strongest lever in my "mini feedback" group. Probably skewed by the fact that I am getting feedback from leaders who managed smart people for years and have seen the magic :)
To the contrary, Naval Ravikant says that People is "the messiest" form of leverage and recommends to use others.
Let me put another doc through the Exec Review and I let you know more about it. I have a couple of real VP reviews coming up :)
This is great!
I think there’s a missing lever: the choice of goal.
Arguably it’s not a lever, but something else :-)
What I mean is that there are some things that I have spent energy trying to do, but no matter what I do, there are headwinds that hold me back, while when I change direction, the going becomes easy.
A classic example of this is the startup trying to create an entirely new category. It’s easier to build a business which is familiar to customers with an improvement than to start in an entirely green market.
Is it leverage, or something else?
It certainly feels like leverage :-)
You are touching on a few interesting things there: choice of the goal/direction and innovation in a startup world.
I would classify "the choice of goal" not as a lever, but as a result, the Earth that you are trying to lift. "What are we trying to achieve?" is a powerful question to examine if you are going after the right goal. It can save a lot of effort!
In case of startups, there are many more levers. Startup ecosystem, government incentives, startup accelerators are all levers - there is a reason Silicon valley have been successful in creating unicorns as it has many things that startups can leverage. But I am not after startup leverage, I am more after personal leverage :)
Does this make sense?
Makes sense - but the choice of goal is such a significant choice that it affects everything else so much.
This is true. Honing the lever only makes sense once you have found the right goal to focus on. That's why the advice on the beginning: do non-scalable things. This helps to figure out the right goal.