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Leverage

5/26/2021

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Colleagues,

Yesterday I shared how I need to put up a new fence for my garden and how that big fence was like Big Change. Today I’ll share how to apply the principles of leverage to take a more incremental approach:
  • 0>1 means that I am tackling a problem, not just the symptom, so I am reassessing the different things that the new fence must achieve. Because this will be permanent, I need to consider some factors this time that I didn’t worry about last time, like durability, aesthetics, and how to make it easy to mow around.
  • A-B means I am doing one piece at a time. I can build a couple of gates without even touching the current fence. I can also adapt the current fence as I build the new fence one section at a time.
  • MVP may be a bit harder to apply as this fence will be a final product. That said, if I can do things in stages, making a fence section viable first, and then going back to pretty it up, then I will do that.
  • M=V/E means that I want to get immediate value from what I do. The thought of spending all summer putting up a fence isn’t appealing, but if I can make an effective gate that works right away, that creates immediate value without too much effort.
 
Like all analogies, this is imperfect, but hopefully it is good enough (five bonus points if you tell me which principle of leverage I just used!)
 
Do good and be well,
 
Frederick
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