Execution eats strategy for breakfast... customers don't care about your fancy strategies and your five-year plan. They care about the product that's in their hands.
Ami Vora
Chief Product Officer, Faire
8 quotes across 1 episode
Making an impact through authenticity and curiosity
When you have great strategy, perfect strategy but poor execution, you don't win because your strategy never makes it to the market. And what's even worse is that you have learned nothing.
Don't dampen who you are and your strengths, just continue expanding. Whenever you run into a problem, just add more to the things that you can do, the tools that you have, the way you can express yourself.
For strategy to be useful, it actually has to change our behavior as a team to create better customer outcomes.
For me, the hill climb is all about the difference between a local optimum and a global optimum... the thing that gets me through the valley is remembering what the summit feels like.
When you have great strategy, perfect strategy but poor execution, you don't win because your strategy never makes it to the market. And what's even worse is that you have learned nothing.
My manager owns context, I own the recommendation.
If we all agree that the feeling of something should be, I'm sitting in Dolores Park with my friends on a sunny Saturday, then people will just naturally build something that feels more consistent.