Strategic Inaccuracy

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Recently one of the engineers at my company wanted to chat. They are earlier in their career and wanted to learn how to think more strategically. I’m certainly no expert here, but there’s a nugget of truth here that helped them, so I am re-sharing it in hopes that it helps you. The conversation went something like this:

Them: How did you know that the company was going to build the new product this year? The architectural…