Everyone and their dog nowadays seem to be working on “strategies.” However, virtually none of the startups I work with have a clearly defined strategy. Instead, they often suffer from a complete disregard for long-term vision (“We’re a startup, who knows?!”), or they think they’re strategizing when in fact, they’re merely coming up with partial work plans. This creates a void in your organization. And as we’ve learned in high-school physics, this void then creates a pressure that’ll end up vacuuming other stuff to fill it up. You can, as a leader, make things better.