Your Future Lies In A Matrix

In the Offsite-In-A-Box eBook, tucked in the Extras section, was a breakdown of my most favorite and useful management conceptual frameworks.

Yeah, I’m a guy who has strong opinions about management models. I live a very exciting life.

I felt the need to add this extra to the ebook because I invested over a year of my time and gobs of money into a business strategy that didn’t work…

…and I predicted that it wouldn’t work before I even started, thanks to Porter’s Five Forces:

A management framework helps lay out evidence and organize possible choices so you can make the best decision. Whether you actually CHOOSE the best choice, that’s on you, but a framework at least paints a picture that can predict a possible future.

To give more insight on the management models covered in the one-pager from the Offsite-In-A-Box, I expanded on my big three in a new blog post. Do these frameworks ring a bell:

• Porter’s Five Forces, to help navigate competitiveness
• Ansoff Matrix, to help choose a growth strategy
• VMSV Pyramid, to align internal priorities and the strategies to get there

These aren’t MBA exercises to sharpen your business acumen, but annual or quarterly habits that any team should adopt to ensure that you too don’t waste a year trying to compete in a margin market with a high-touch game plan.

Learn and/or refresh your knowledge of these three simple frameworks in this newest blog post.

Read the blog post

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A TL;DR from the CRO

If you are just going to do what you want and ignore the evidence, just pencil in a "I told you so" a year later and prepare to eat your words.

-Roman Noodles, Chief Ruff Officer

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I achieved a life goal this week: serving on jury duty. Sure, I sat in a room and then had nothing happen, but gosh darn it was exactly what I expected.
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In another life, I was a competitive Mock Trial attorney for five years, standing in courtrooms across the US trying to convince a real judge that my fake client was innocent/guilty. I memorized reams of actual case law and courtroom procedures, including the definition of hearsay ("An out of court statement intended to prove the truth of the matter asserted") that my teammates and I used to shout during drinking games after a competition.
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Like I said, I live a very exciting life.
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Sure, we as a society have fumbled in turning mushy ethics into laws and rules, and while a trial by jury isn't perfect, our systems and procedures are far better than rule by force or birthright. Jury duty is how everyday people can see the system without being caught in it. It's where many people build their careers, where futures get decided, and where the friction points between rules and human nature get resolved.
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So yeah, I had the best day ever sitting in a beige room.
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Don't fight the law unless you mean it,

Dan from Learn to Scale​

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​PS. This is a pretty accurate portrayal of CRO Roman Noodles getting a haircut​