|#104 MWAVC| - 2020 Vision 🥂
As we move into the new year, do you have a plan yet? Not for Detty December but a plan for growth in 2020. No? Okay great. Here’s a short exercise in strategy mapping you can do in one hour tops (minus distractions). Answer these questions (you can modify bullet 4&5 if your strategy map is for personal goals) and set a visual and most importantly, agile map out for the new year. I’m doing mine today. We move.
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Vision - what's the world you want to create in the future?
Strategic focus - how does your strategy needs to shift over time?
Strategic goals - what specific goals support your strategy?
Target markets & customers - what markets or customers will you tackle over time?
Solutions - what offerings will you provide and how will these change over time?
Key risks & barriers - what risks or barriers might you encounter?
Key metrics - how will you measure success?
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Remember January is a long month. Don’t go broke trying to impress this Detty December :)
Article List— What I’m reading (10 articles a day x 7 days x 4 weeks x 12 months = 3360 articles a year).
7 Things You Need To Stop Doing To Be More Productive, Backed By Science: Next time you need to avoid saying yes, use “I don’t” in your refusal, to reinforce the helpful behavior of saying no to things that aren’t worth it.
Why Jack Dorsey is right about Bitcoin’s future in Africa: Funny, I listened to a podcast this morning (Greymatter) where Reid Hoffman interviewed Wences Casares (google them). And fully convinced Bitcoin is a matter for emerging markets, not the developed world, because of the ease of introducing new fintechs (ex. MoMo).
Victoria Falls dries to a trickle after worst drought in a century: Well this is unfortunate, and concerning.
Ray Dalio Is Now Mentoring Hip-Hop Mogul Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs: Diddy’s tweets are about to be more ridic.
Netflix has finally outdone Hollywood at the Golden Globes: Not sure why but this sounds transformational. Where do we go from here?
The Enabling Role of Stakeholders in Innovation: Love the way he ended, “now we have no excuses, do we?” Accra mayor, take note.
Mathieu Flamini: The future billionaire footballer banking on a little-known chemical compound: I bet you didn’t know this is what Flamini started doing after football. 😏
Manage It Like That (MILT) — A Nigerian story: “My belief is that if Nigerians collectively start demanding better of themselves, beginning from small things, we will ultimately grow.” 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾 Funny but true narrative of the state of affairs in Naij (and the whole of Africa tbh)
Send and receive money instantly, at zero fees, using Bit Sika.: “No other app in the market offers this to its users”—Yum yum. This is what I like to hear. Big up the team at MT and BitSika
Startup Growth and Venture Returns: What We Found When We Analyzed Thousands of VC Deals: “If you miss the best-performing seed investment, you will eventually be outperformed by someone who blindly invests in every credible deal.” Credible is subjective, though. Not sure what the author means. Everyone has different biases and thoughts as to what is credible and what isn’t.
Podcast— What I’m listening to (1 podcast episode a day= 365 podcast episodes a year) — Broadening my experiences through others’ stories.
The Gig is Up: I know I posted this yesterday, but whatever, I’m posting again. This is THE podcast. Already listened to the first episode thrice because I couldn’t get enough of it and I really needed to deep all the knowledge again.
Book— 1 Chapter a day x 7 days x 4 weeks x 12 months = 336 chapters. Most books have 10-12 chapters, so 1 year = 28 to 33 books. And my book list is nearing 1000 books. Send help 🌚
The House of Rothschild. “Three things would give an investor an edge over his rival: closeness to the centre of political life, the source of news; the speed with which he could receive news of events in states far and near; and the ability to manipulate the transmission of that news to other investors. This explains why the Rothschilds spent so much time, energy and money maintaining the best possible relations with the leading political figures of the day. It also explains why they carefully developed a network of salaried agents in other key financial markets, whose job it was not only to trade on their behalf but also to keep them supplied with the latest financial and political news. And it explains why they constantly strove to accelerate the speed with which information could be relayed from their agents to them. From an early stage, they relied on their own system of couriers and relished their ability to obtain political news ahead of the European diplomatic services. They also occasionally used carrier-pigeons to transmit the latest stock prices and exchange rates from one market to another. Before the development of the telegraph (and later the telephone), which tended to “democratise” news by making it generally available more rapidly, the Rothschilds’ communications network gave them an important advantage over their competitors. Even after they lost this edge, they continued to exercise an influence over the financial press through which news reached a wider public.”
📱📱Quote of the day
“Crisis is often how great innovation begins. When the going gets tough, don’t give up on new growth”
Remember: “Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter.”