The Heart of Innovation: A Field Guide for Navigating to Authentic Demand, By Matt Chanoff, Merrick Furst, Daniel Sabbah and Mark Wegman. ISBN:9781523005703 https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/738442/the-heart-of-innovation-by-matt-chanoff-merrick-furst-daniel-sabbah-and-mark-wegman/ (more)

alternative frame to product-market-fit, model from The Heart of Innovation; see not not

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Outliner, to-do list https://checkvist.com/ (more)

John Cutler: Founder Market Fit (FMF) is, in many ways, far more important than Product Market Fit. If a market (and the resultant "go to market") clashes with how a founder thinks about selling, building, representing the company, hiring, quality, preserving customer trust, or the potential/role of product teams.... no amount of a "validating", experimentation, etc. will make a difference* (more)

Brian Balfour: There are four essential fits: Market Product Fit (not Product Market Fit), Product Channel Fit, Channel Model Fit, Model Market Fit. I'm going to dedicate a post to each of these fits, along with how you can apply this framework. (more)

Brian Balfour: Why Product Market Fit Isn't Enough. (Four Fits) There are certain companies where growth seems to come easily, like guiding a boulder down hill. These companies grow despite having organizational chaos, not executing the “best” growth practices, and missing low hanging fruit. I refer to these companies as Smooth Sailers. The whole series of post-excerpts is on this page. (more)

The concept of delaying/staging a decision/investment to "keep your options open". (more)

business strategy framing/book by Hamilton Helmer https://7powers.com/ ISBN:0998116319 (more)

Career Planning (Making A Living) book by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha - ASIN:B0050DIWHU (more)

Taylor Pearson on AntiFragile Planning: Optimizing for Optionality (without Chasing Shiny Objects) (more)

Benedict T. Casnocha is an American author, entrepreneur, and investor, based in San Francisco, California.[1][2] He is a co-founder and partner at the venture capital firm Village Global.[3] At 14 he founded Comcate Inc., an e-government technology firm. He is the author of three books, including the New York Times bestseller The Start-Up of You.[4][5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Casnocha

All Models Are Wrong, But Some Are Useful... sometimes (more)

George Edward Pelham Box FRS[1] (18 October 1919 – 28 March 2013) was a British statistician, who worked in the areas of quality control, time-series analysis, design of experiments, and Bayesian inference. He has been called "one of the great statistical minds of the 20th century". His quote "All models are wrong but some are useful" has been widely discussed. (George E P Box) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_E._P._Box

John Ruskin (8 February 1819 – 20 January 1900) was an English polymath – a writer, lecturer, art historian, art critic, draughtsman and philanthropist of the Victorian era. He wrote on subjects as varied as art, architecture, political economy, education, museology, geology, botany, ornithology, literature, history, and myth. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Ruskin

blogger, stopped May'2014 https://thelastpsychiatrist.com/ aka TLP (more)

a way to confuse a Product Team via Project Management :) (more)

Control theory is a field of control engineering and applied mathematics that deals with the control of dynamical systems. The aim is to develop a model or algorithm governing the application of system inputs to drive the system to a desired state, while minimizing any delay, overshoot, or steady-state error and ensuring a level of control stability; often with the aim to achieve a degree of optimality. To do this, a controller with the requisite corrective behavior is required. This controller monitors the controlled process variable (PV), and compares it with the reference or set point (SP). The difference between actual and desired value of the process variable, called the error signal, or SP-PV error, is applied as feedback to generate a control action to bring the controlled process variable to the same value as the set point. Other aspects which are also studied are controllability and observability. Control theory is used in control system engineering to design automation that have revolutionized manufacturing, aircraft, communications and other industries, and created new fields such as robotics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_theory

VUCA is an acronym used to describe or reflect on the Volatility, UnCertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity of general conditions and situations. The common usage of the term VUCA began in the late 1990s and derives from military vocabulary[1] and has been subsequently used in emerging ideas in strategic leadership that apply in a wide range of organizations, including everything from for-profit corporations[2] to education... (more)

Perceptual control theory (PCT) is a model of behavior based on the properties of negative feedback control loops. A control loop maintains a sensed variable at or near a reference value by means of the effects of its outputs upon that variable, as mediated by physical properties of the environment. In engineering control theory, reference values are set by a user outside the system. An example is a thermostat. In a living organism, reference values for controlled perceptual variables are endogenously maintained. Biological homeostasis and reflexes are simple, low-level examples. The discovery of mathematical principles of control introduced a way to model a negative feedback loop closed through the environment (circular causation), which spawned perceptual control theory. It differs fundamentally from some models in behavioral and cognitive psychology that model stimuli as causes of behavior (linear causation). PCT research is published in experimental psychology, neuroscience, ethology, anthropology, linguistics, sociology, robotics, developmental psychology, organizational psychology and management, and a number of other fields. PCT has been applied to design and administration of educational systems, and has led to a psychotherapy called the method of levels. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perceptual_control_theory (more)