🛠️ Pivot Toolkit: Launch

At a certain point it becomes time for a bigger Launch. The first three stages of the Pivot Method, repeated as many times as necessary, help reduce risk and give you a greater chance of success, often taking you 80-90 percent of the way toward your goal.

Launch is where you go all in on the remaining 10 to 20 percent. These are the bigger decisions that require commitment even in the face of remaining uncertainty.

Templates

For each one, go to File → Make a Copy to save a working version for yourself

• Launch Timing Criteria Checklist: You have reduced risk by cycling through the first three stage of the Pivot Method (Plant, Scan, Pilot), but how do you know when it is time to go all in? This template, excerpted from the book, will help you identify and prioritize your most important launch criteria. 
   

• Project Plan Template: This is a simple project plan template (though fancier than the thumbnail preview indicates). “Done?” column cells change color automatically if you type “Yes”, “No,” or “In Progress.”
   

• Quarterly Focus Tracker: Set a focus area for the next three months, identify key milestones, and record your progress for accountability and success.
   

• Pivot Hexagon: Launch Trade-offs and Values Evaluation: Some launches involve tradeoffs or tough decisions. Print out the Pivot Hexagon (excerpted from the book) to rate your values, and to create a scorecard for each decision you are considering. 

Related Books

• The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level

• The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)

• Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success

• Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance

• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

• mBraining: Using your multiple brains to do cool stuff

• Playing Big: Find Your Voice, Your Mission, Your Message

• How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life