How to Plan Effectively: A Step-by-Step Approach
The answer is simple: either he time-traveled back — like Zhuge Liang, knowing the past and foreseeing the future — or he's done this before and has experience.
From an investment standpoint, only certainty is plan-able. Meaning: I go in, there's definitely a return; I fight, I definitely win; I win, I definitely profit.
For ordinary people, though, it's through countless little guinea pigs — countless unguided probes — that you literally grope your way to something that works.
So you have to just do it. Only by doing can you try things out.
It's precisely because you have to make those countless pathfinding runs, serve as the guinea pig, that your boss can figure out which things actually pay off — then he can go do them himself.
The real question of who ended up as whose guinea pig — that's what separates the ranks. If you want to avoid the pain of being betrayed, the best play is to betray first. The one who betrays first is the one who never gets betrayed.
