70% of my conversations with peers/clients/leads in August were about 2026 planning.
While the current landscape with AI, Reddit, automated SDRs, etc., isn’t slowing down in “change velocity”, core business objectives take planning, foundational work, early execution, calibration, and scaling after the first 6 to 9 months.
Any “last-minute 2025” requests should be minimal, incremental, and treated as optimizations or patches.
Your core demand channels in 2026 may change.
Organic may become trendy again.
LinkedIn may fix its feed.
Budgets may flow again in energy, trade, or clean tech.
But core principles, foundational systems, and RevOps metrics remain largely unchanged.
Strategic objectives pace weekly and track core business KPIs every Monday.
Everything else is tactical calibration.
Planning Is Strategic, Patching Is Tactical
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Mario Peshev is a 5x CEO and operator, founder of DevriX and Growth Shuttle, global value creation advisor, angel investor, and author of “MBA Disrupted.”
His original background in engineering rode the wave of IT entrepreneurship in the last 25 years, from product and service entrepreneurship through acquiring and selling businesses, to investing in global startups like beehiiv, doola, the Stacked Marketer, Alcatraz, SeedBlink.
Peshev spent over 10,000 hours in consulting and training contracts for mid-market and enterprise organizations like VMware, SAP, Software AG, CERN, Saudi Aramco since 2006. His books and guides are referenced in over 50 universities in North America, Europe, and Asia.
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