Book Titles

If you don’t know how to execute, every strategy will fail, even the most promising ones.

Execution is hard, and great execution is scarce – which makes it another great source of competitive advantage.

Experience may be overrated by some, but it’s hard to find a substitute for it.

It is the role of leadership to maintain a culture of brutal honesty.

It’s hard enough to compete against a formidable opponent, but it’s impossible if you can’t even recognize your biggest threat.

Treat every strategy with caution, and take care to avoid becoming intellectually or emotionally wedded to your preferred strategy.

A strong product will generate escape velocity and find its market, even with a mediocre sales team. But even a great sales team cannot fix or compensate for product problems.

Without strong execution, there is literally no way to know whether a strategy is failing.

Celebrate people who own their responsibilities, take and defend clear positions, argue for their preferred strategies, and seek to move the dial.

Employees should be able to look at themselves in the mirror and feel strongly that they matter to the organization, that they contribute in significant ways, that their absence would significantly hurt its results.