THINKING – Sprint 17
How will you lead your startup?
The reason for this sprint
Founding a company and leading it from being just an idea to actually serving customers and prospering for many years is extremely challenging.
It is worth the time to reflect on the learnings and coachings from sprints 7-16. Doing so, will help you set your personal priorities, which can be difficult under the pressure of a startup.
Creating a Personal Leadership Strategy (PLS) enables you to formulate an objective list of strengths and weaknesses relative to your entrepreneurial ambitions, and, even more importantly, develop and implement strategies to leverage your strengths and mitigate your weaknesses, further improving your chances of entrepreneurial success. This also helps keeping a balance with friends and family.
Sprint exercises
The “Making a Personal Leadership Strategy” article will lead you through a set of steps, to consolidate reflections about your own entrepreneurial capabilities from all the sprints you have done so far.
Based upon this inventory, the article leads you into analyzing how your specific capabilities yield certain strengths and weaknesses relative to being a successful entrepreneur.
The final part of this exercise focuses on determining the few actions or activities that best leverage your strengths and mitigate your weaknesses in achieving your entrepreneurial goals.
In the end, this yields a powerful Personal Leadership Strategy that focuses you on doing what is most important.