Execution Eats Strategy

Ami Vora sees product leaders obsessing over vision and strategy.

'Strategy is super fun. You get to think about pie in the sky stuff. But customers don't care. Customers don't care about your fancy strategies and your five-year plan. They care about the product that's in their hands.'

This is parenting in a nutshell.

You've read the books. You have a philosophy. You know the optimal attachment-gentle-positive-respectful approach. But your kid doesn't experience your philosophy. They experience you.

Did you show up at bedtime? Did you stay calm during the tantrum? Did you keep the boundary?

'Execution is not glamorous. It is the nuts and bolts and sometimes boring, sometimes grind it out work. But that is what leads to customer outcomes. That is what the customer is eventually going to feel.'

Your kid will never know your parenting strategy. They'll know whether you were there.

Execution is presence. Show up.