Exploring for strategy.

A surprising number of strategies are doomed from inceptionbecause their authors get attached to one particular approachwithout considering alternatives that would work better fortheir current circumstances.This happens when engineers want to pick tools solely becausethey are trending, and when executives insist on adopting thetech stack from their prior organization where they felt comfortable.

Exploration is the antidote to early anchoring, forcing you to considerthe problem widely befo...