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Choose What the Business Should Stop Doing
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Cut low-value work with a disciplined review of profit, strategic fit, founder energy, obligations, and opportunity cost.
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Use this when
Your calendar and costs keep growing without a matching improvement in profit. Too many offers, channels, meetings, tools, exceptions, or internal habits are competing for limited cash and attention. You need to cut back, but don't want to make blunt decisions based on frustration alone.
You'll need
- Business priorities
- Activity inventory
- Financial evidence
- Capacity evidence
- Strategic evidence
- Commitments and constraints
- Decision horizon
- Risk posture
You'll get
- Every material activity assigned a clear decision or evidence gap
- Every stop or pause decision supported by financial, strategic, and capacity evidence
- Dependencies and active commitments checked before exit
- Exit candidates ranked by value, timing, and risk
- A sequenced 30-, 60-, and 90-day plan
- Stakeholder talking points ready for use
By the end of this playbook
You will have:
- Every material activity assigned a clear decision or evidence gap
- Every stop or pause decision supported by financial, strategic, and capacity evidence
- Dependencies and active commitments checked before exit
- Exit candidates ranked by value, timing, and risk
- A sequenced 30-, 60-, and 90-day plan
- Stakeholder talking points ready for use
Sample
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Sample input
Priorities: Improve cash flow, reduce delivery overload, and standardize our main service. Inventory: Custom reporting, weekly all-hands meeting, webinars, three social channels, referral program, premium CRM add-ons, and one-off onboarding requests. Evidence: Custom reporting earns about $4,000 monthly but consumes 55 delivery hours. Webinars cost $1,200 monthly and generated two qualified leads last quarter. The referral program costs about $500 monthly and generated six strong opportunities. The CRM add-ons cost $900 monthly, but usage is unclear. Constraints: Three annual contracts include custom reports. The webinar platform renews in 45 days. CRM data needs to be exported before cancellation. Decision horizon: Within 90 days Risk posture: Balanced
Sample assembled prompt
Executive decision summary: Stop now: -... Low demand evidence, recurring publishing burden,... - Weekly all-hands meeting in its... Replace with a written update and... Stage the exit: - Custom reporting... Remove it from new proposals immediately,... - Webinar program. Cancel before renewal unless the final... Test before deciding: - CRM add-ons. Run a 14-day usage audit and... Cancel modules with no active workflow... Keep: - Referral program. Strong lead quality, low operating burden,... Top 30-day actions: 1. Remove custom reporting from new proposals. 2. Notify account owners about the... 3. Replace weekly all-hands meetings with... 4. Audit CRM module usage and... 5. Set the webinar cancellation decision... Safeguards: - Review customer retention and... - Restore a live weekly meeting... - Keep the webinar program only...