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The Center Test: A Practical Way to Decide What Your Product Team Keeps, Kills, or Retests

Every founder eventually hits the same wall: too many signals, too little certainty, and a backlog full of ideas that all sound plausible. The instinct is to ask “what should we build next?” But there’s a sharper question hiding underneath it — one that Columbia Business School strategist Rita McGrath puts to CEOs before they touch a roadmap at all: what is this company actually centered on?

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