During the early stages of blitzscaling — Family and Tribe — it’s easier to take risks because you don’t have much to lose. - Reid Hoffman

What is your organization trying to do? How are you trying to achieve those goals? What acceptable risks are you incurring to achieve those goals more quickly? When you have to trade off certain values, which ones take priority? What kind of behavior do you hire, promote, or fire for?

Your teams need the ability — and the manpower — to relentlessly pursue a specific objective; asking a team to split its time between two different business lines is likely to result in the failure of both.

Keeping your options open” is frequently more of a risk than committing to a plan of action.