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• Let's say you manage 4-5 direct reports. In a culture where rigorous thinking is expected, the idea is this: Any idea goes, but each team member should be prepared to advocate for their idea and defend it. You should be prepared to walk through the upside, downside, data points rooted in reality, and how it works given your assets and constraints....
• In this way, rigorous thinking acts as a force multiplier and fosters a spirit of entrepreneurialism and ownership among your team. It’s lonely and stressful to be the only one thinking about what to do, looking around the corner to anticipate what’s next.
• Rigorous thinking is asking critical questions about tactics, and having a systematic way of making decisions.
• Counterintuitively, rigorous thinking saves you time. Instead of jumping to execute the first idea you think of, you run through basic considerations to stress test your own logic.
• The opposite of rigorous thinking is lazy thinking. Lazy thinking is making assumptions you don't even know are assumptions. It's having a black box of logic where "suddenly it works and we have thousands of customers."

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