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{"id":483,"date":"2013-02-23T07:53:24","date_gmt":"2013-02-23T07:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/?p=483"},"modified":"2013-02-27T16:10:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-27T16:10:30","slug":"57-starting-point","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/?p=483","title":{"rendered":"#57 Starting point"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='kindleWidget kindleLight' ><img src=\"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/send-to-kindle\/media\/white-25.png\" \/><span>Send to Kindle<\/span><\/div><p>Does the starting point matter? After all, if you take a <a title=\"Systems thinking\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Systems_thinking\" target=\"_blank\">systems approach<\/a>, everything is interconnected. No matter where you start, you are going to touch the other dots at some point.<\/p>\n<p>You may want to select a starting point based on the following:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your customer has passion around a subject, or is experiencing a pain point that needs immediate attention.<\/li>\n<li>There is a natural sequence to things, for example, you have to put on your socks and then your shoes. It can never be the other way around.<\/li>\n<li>There are some realities that obey the laws of physics in the short term, for example, size of your budget, your market share, an unreasonable boss, and organization capabilities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ultimate test is the intangible one: &#8220;What makes sense?&#8221; Will there be a natural momentum or will you have to invest in persuading your coalition to build the momentum?<\/p>\n<p>Whatever it is, please pick a point and get started. <a title=\"Analysis paralysis\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Analysis_paralysis\" target=\"_blank\">Analysis paralysis<\/a> will get you knowhere (pun intended).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does the starting point matter? After all, if you take a systems approach, everything is interconnected. No matter where you start, you are going to touch the other dots at some point. You may want to select a starting point based on the following: Your customer has passion around a subject, or is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes"},"categories":[19,14,12,13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=483"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":598,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/483\/revisions\/598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/strategyexecutioninstitute.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}