Hello, Wienabbers. My name is Jesse Meekham and this is podcast number

422 for Wienab, where we teach you four rules to help you stop living

paycheck to paycheck, get out of debt and save more money.

Those decisions between should we do this, should we do that, especially as it relates to balancing

that all with a partner.

It's tricky and it's not obvious and there are these really uncomfortable trade-offs

that happen regularly.

Here at Wineb we have a thing called the Vision Doc and it's kind of a steering document for the company.

It gives what is called Commander's intent and I wish I could remember the book that that phrase came from but it's

the idea that you the commander gives the intent but then everyone else that's following that intent is making

tiny little decisions along the way that I think the book was from Chip and Dan Heath.

But I can't remember which one it was made to stick maybe can't remember anyway made to stick is a good book but the idea is that people are operating under commander's intent so they're presented with all of these other problems

and points where they need to make a decision and they can operate under the

umbrella of the commander's intent of take the city. So what whenever you're presented with these decisions, you really are just trying to say, well, I know my overall objective is take the city, so I will do this in order to do that.

You could think of different companies that have pretty solid commanders

intent as it relates to their brand on how it feels. We at Wineab we have

we're friendly. We try and use friendly words. We try and not be stodgy.

We hire people that couldn't be stodgy if they tried,

so it's very natural for us.

We don't have to try hard to be friendly at all.

But the idea of people then having to make lots and lots of decisions,

whether or not they give a refund, whether or not they help someone out in this way,

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