Course 1
The Foundations
What an outcome is, and how to name one so that it can be worked.
Three words get used as if they were one word: task, project, outcome. The difference is not academic. A task ends when it is done. A project ends when somebody decides it ends. An outcome is true or it is not, and it has to be true again next year. This course teaches you to see the outcomes you already carry and to write each one down in a sentence that another person could act on.
5 lessons
Lessons in this course
- 1.1 What is an outcomeA finished state somebody is responsible for reaching, and why that is a useful thing to name.
- 1.2 Outcomes, tasks, projects and habitsFour words that get used as if they were the same word. Telling them apart changes the plan.
- 1.3 Finding yoursWorking backwards through a calendar, a diary and a set of past mistakes to the outcomes underneath.
- 1.4 The onionA large outcome contains smaller outcomes, and each layer is owned by somebody different.
- 1.5 Naming itThe wording of an outcome decides whether it can be worked, checked or argued with.