Marc Haine compares building a business to baking cookies: throwing random ingredients together without a tested recipe ruins the result. Successful companies need one refined strategy, not multiple conflicting approaches. Experienced leaders adapt in real time using sensory feedback, a skill built over years.
Well, and it reminds me of a metaphor of if you wanted to make chocolate chip cookies, you could go online and you could find, oh, I can get these kinds of chocolate chips and go on to another site and go, oh, here's some flour I can use. And oh, here's some baking powder. And then, you try to figure out how to put it all together and make the worst cookies ever until you have a proper recipe. And that's usually— you usually hang your hat on one recipe Not a whole bunch of people telling you everything all at once.
Well, and there's experience in there. Like my mother and grandmother were really good cooks. And a lot of that came with the fact that as they went, they could see, taste, feel whatever was going on and adapt. Yeah, that experience element is key. I'm gonna answer this with a little bit of the attorney in me. Different personalities need different engagement and interaction. And I think different businesses and different life cycles Also, you know, when you're in startup, it's a little bit easier to kind of piece info together because you have a little bit more time.
