Before you do, think about it.

In Appworks, every Friday is my Office Hour time, from morning to afternoon, every half hour, our entrepreneurial team can make an appointment to chat with me and ask me any questions. At first, I think of myself as their "co-founder", so as long as they ask, I will answer, and not perfunctory kind, I will rack my brains to put forward their views and opinions. But over time, I find that this is not good because some teams will start to rely on me, Jamie said, we are "right". But if you really just do it, if it's just doing it, they're not starting a business, they're just practicing.

So I started to change my strategy, and whenever the team asked me any "tactical" questions, Jamie, did I ask my customers to pay for a marketing campaign like this? If I join this function, will the conversion rate be raised? This kind of thing, my answer is all: Do not know, you go to try to know. If they ask me questions related to "strategy," such as: Jamie, do we have to talk to the industry first, or from behind the rankings? This situation, I will provide some of the eucalyptus to let them refer to, but will not give too much of my ideas. And if they want to talk about "Vision," then I will play "Devil's Advocate", constantly challenge their views, make sure they are really thinking, and really believe that they see the future.

The reason for this great trouble is simple, because we think that real entrepreneurs are "thinkers".

You might say, is there a situation where a blind cat has a dead mouse? Yes, indeed there is, but usually that kind of company, often how to go up, how will come down, because a business short-term success may rely on luck, but to long-term success, continuous progress, leaders in addition to have the ability to carry out, but also to think about the height, depth, Breadth, which is the ability of system thinking, is indispensable.

So all the people who are starting a business, want to start a business, in addition to "do", don't forget, ask, and constantly question where I'm going, why I'm going, how I'm going to get there, where to go, what's next, why I do it, why I don't do it, Why consumers buy this stuff, why they don't buy that thing.

1,000 out of the entrepreneurial team, the last "success" of less than 5. If you just keep your head down, it's probably hard to escape the fate of 1/995. The last thing you can do is to be able to stay.

If you spend 8 hours a day "doing", perhaps you should also spend 8 hours on "thinking" and how you can do better.