Ideas are worth nothing unless you execute

Jeff Atwood wrote that you should cultivate your teams suggesting that the ability to execute on your idea is as or more important than the idea itself.

Today at the office, leadership shared the vision of our product roadmap. While very exciting and motivating, some of my colleagues feel the ideas are nothing new. They aren’t. Many of us have discussed the same ideas time and again over the past several years. Corporate myopia and lack of focus for the efforts of a lot of smart people prevented us from forming the right teams to execute. Now that we have support from the very highest levels in the corporation and are beginning to organize in ways to provide focus, it is time for us to execute.

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