A Clarity Hierarchy
A Catalyst Tool For Difference-Makers
Defining, developing, and delivering the difference only you can make is important work. But doing this with frequency, intensity, and purpose is challenging in a world where distraction, shiny objects, and misguided gurus abound.
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A Hierarchy of Clarity
Lukas Resheske’s Hierarchy of Clarity is an exceptional tool for evaluating choices and simplifying decisions.1 This process helps you gain traction and momentum as you close the gap between where you are and where you want to be in a solopreneur (or life) endeavor.
I’ve heard Lukas present his hierarchy of clarity a few times. What I’m sharing now is an interpretation. Click here for an article by Lukas about his IP.
Reasoning from first principles, the Hierarchy of Clarity framework follows these five steps in pursuing a goal.
Philosophy
Principles
Strategy
Tactics
Tools
Let’s start by defining our terms.
Philosophy comprises your core values, beliefs, and guiding principles. Discerning your choices and deciding which to act upon must align with your philosophies to be executed with intention and integrity.
Principles are what you know to be real and true. These realities and truths are learned or discovered by stripping away biases, false certainties, and narrative distortions.
IMPORTANT NOTE: Philosophy and principles are timeless and do not change. That’s the purview of strategies, tactics, and tools.
Strategy is your plan for achieving intentions based on your current situation and resources. Strategies are informed and inspired by philosophies and principles and tweaked based on contact with reality and results.
Tactics are the smallest viable steps you can imagine to try and test in the moment. Tactics serve strategy and can change quickly. Tactics that work should be leveraged until they don’t or until a better one is found.
Tools are the ideas and implements used to execute tactical moves. Tools are force multipliers. They help you get desired results more effectively and efficiently.
ANOTHER NOTE: If you’re familiar with my handbook, The Process, you’ll find resonance with the five steps I unpacked in it: vision, mission, goal, strategy, and tactic.2
Lukas has an essential question to answer at each step. Answering these questions is the key to greater clarity of direction and clarity of direction is the only way to collapse time to target.
Keep reading to learn the questions and how they apply to a typical solopreneur goal.