Reading from others experience, although valuable, will never be a replacement for hands-on experience.

Why?

Well, I’m going to venture out on a limb and say that from the problems you read and hear about, you’ll hardly ever come across an identical problem.

So when you have to strategize and solve a unique problem, what do you do?

Thankfully, there are static frameworks and questions you can ask to guide the direction of your strategy.

Some of those questions are:

What is my objective?

How am I going to evaluate success?

What are the problems that are keeping me from reaching my objective?

What are the problems that are keeping me from reaching my objective?

What are the problems that are keeping me from reaching my objective?

There is an obvious emphasis on understanding the problems you face. I can not emphasize the teh importance of this enough. It is a common mistake to jump straight to solutions, something I still find myself doing. But one thing I’ve learned is that if you do not deeply understand the problem, which takes more time than we often permit, your solutions will remain topical.

After understanding and answering these 5, but in actuality 3, questions you are on your way to strategy good fortune.