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How to navigate short-term pressure versus long-term strategy in startup teams

Our startup team is obsessed with hitting this quarter's metrics but I can see we're making decisions that will hurt us in two years, and when I bring it up everyone agrees in theory but nothing changes in practice.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The visible urgency of immediate metrics overwhelms the invisible importance of sustainable growth, even when everyone intellectually knows better.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Long-term thinking vs. short-term thinking?”

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