Exercise: Idea Validation
Once you’ve come up with some options for your post-corporate life, you need to give them a healthy kick - are they all they seem to be?
From the safety of inside our corporate job it can be easy to fantasize and romantacize what life outside will be like. We can imagine the very best version of ourselves, turning down clients because we are in such demand, ignoring basics like costs and time to build a business. In short we can get carried away.
Test your ideas against some of the things, the ‘Fit Factors’, that you’ve already decided are important – Objectives Key Results, Capabilities, Energizers, Financials.