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May 22Liked by Rick Foerster

Hmmm. I enjoy creating order from disorder, establishing new processes that will enable the organization to scale, streamlining existing processes, recognizing new opportunities to grow.

FWIW, I’ve found my involvement in scaling and optimization reassuring rather than frightening, as I’ve seen it as providing a better base for future operations.

But when operations become too predictable, I start to get bored.

So: what stage am I? Scale Stage? The more innovative part of Late Stage?

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Sounds like Scale Stage.

But an astute reader pointed out to me that all the stages could be applied to other contexts, such as a Product or a Team, where there are Early/Scale/Late Stages of those.

So you could be working on an Early Stage PRODUCT at a Late Stage COMPANY. A lot of different varieties out there.

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May 23Liked by Rick Foerster

Great point about the stages of projects/products and companies diverging. And thank you for pegging me as Scale Stage.

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