Excerpt from a podcast interview (Andrew Alexandrovich) about running a company as a learning, adaptively managed organization. He describes five‑year strategies as high‑level vision-setting (impact, clients, revenue, staffing) while pivots happen more frequently—annual shifts for major course changes and quarterly adjustments for tactical planning—often triggered by new contracts or emerging traction.
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We're always looking to adaptively manage it and change course. As a company, we're really kind of like learning, focused and adaptively managed. So we're always looking for like, you know, is this still right and are we on track and do we need to make any pivots? Kind of surprisingly like our five year strategies, they're very high level. Kind of like what kind of impact we want to be making or what does our client base look like, what's our revenue and staff count look like? The last five year strategy, it was amazing. Didn't look like we were going to hit all the targets we wanted to hit. And then just a bunch of stuff happened. Like we got some new contracts, we got traction in different areas of work and we kind of made it happen. In the last like years four and five, I kind of see a similar trajectory right now. The pivots kind of are happening at that annual scale. So that's the nice thing about this framework is. And then, you know, the angle planning, even the pivots are happening at the quarterly scale.