# Choose next year's company priorities and what we'll stop doing

A short list of company-wide priorities, each with an owner and measure, plus an explicit stop-doing list.

- Topic: Business Strategy & Startups
- Framework: RTF
- Level: Standard
- Tags: Productivity, Rewrite & Edit, Plan, Fill-in Template
- Source: https://www.thinkwithprompt.com/prompts/choose-next-year-s-company-priorities-and-what-we-ll-stop-doing

## Prompt

```text
Help me narrow down my company's priorities for next year.

**Company stage and situation:** [e.g. "Series A, $4M ARR, 18 months runway"]
**Strategy or long-term goal:** [WHERE we're trying to get]
**Candidate priorities from my leadership team:** [LIST everything on the table]
**Current initiatives already consuming capacity:** [LIST with rough team size]
**Constraints:** [budget, headcount, cash, key people]
**What happened last year:** [what we committed to and what actually got done]

Do this:
1. Group overlapping candidates and rewrite each as an outcome, not an activity.
2. Score each on: impact on the long-term goal, urgency, confidence we can do it, and capacity required. Show the table.
3. Recommend 3-5 company priorities. More than five is a sign we haven't chosen.
4. For each priority: one owner on the leadership team, one measure of success with a target, and the first 90-day milestone.
5. Build a stop/pause list: current work that conflicts with or starves the priorities, with how to wind each down.
6. Name the trade-offs plainly: what we are knowingly accepting by not doing the rest.
7. Check for the common failure modes: every department getting its own priority, priorities that are really metrics, and no capacity freed up to do them.

Return the scored table, the final list, the stop list, and a short paragraph I can use to explain the choices to the company.
```

## What to fill in

- e.g. "Series A, $4M ARR, 18 months runway"
- WHERE we're trying to get
- LIST everything on the table
- LIST with rough team size
- budget, headcount, cash, key people
- what we committed to and what actually got done

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