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When you start a new business you can fall into one of two categories. You can operate on the premise that you must be right first time or that you will rarely be right fist time, but you use your initial decision as a marker dart for incremental improvement. This is the fundamental paradigm of strategic construction for start-ups. This is the DNA which your planning is built on.

There are so many factors in determining which category entrepreneurs fall into. Social and educational backgrounds are important along with personal philosophy. Another major factor is culture bleed from an entrepreneur’s previous workplace. This is perfectly natural but in the context of new start-ups can be damaging. A culture that has evolved in the ecosystem of a multinational company will most likely be sub optimal in a start-up setting.

Making incremental improvements is an essential function of start-ups. It’s by far a better approach to strategic planning than “right first time” methods. You cannot learn from failure fast enough with the “right first time” approach. You are likely to give up too soon. However, if you accept that you will probably need to make a number of iterations of your decision before it works, you have scope to learn from specific failures and build them into you future decision making process.

You can only truly learn by letting your decisions play out in the real world. Therefore, the best way to develop as a business owner is to adopt the incremental improvement philosophy.