The 4 Biggest Execution Mistakes Founders Make

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The 4 Biggest Execution Mistakes Founders Make

The Startup Podcast

43 minutes 1 second

3 weeks ago

The 4 Biggest Execution Mistakes Founders Make

Think you’re executing well? Think again. Chances are you’re making one of these four common mistakes.

Drawing from Chris’s latest essay and real-world advisory experience, Chris and Yaniv spend this episode breaking down the four biggest execution mistakes you're probably making right now. They explore how to recognize these patterns early, how to apply taste and judgment when scaling, and how to develop the discipline needed to execute with precision.

In this episode, you will:

Identify when you’re oversimplifying, and mistaking nuanced, unique use cases for the same problem
Understand how overcomplicating your product or process can destroy focus and momentum
Learn to categorize problems correctly using the principle of mutually exclusive, collectively exhaustive thinking
Apply the concept of “necessary and sufficient” work — doing everything that’s needed and nothing that’s not
Recognize that mistiming priorities ends in attempting to do everything at once, but finishing nothing
Develop the taste, judgment, and rigor to strike the perfect balance between simplicity and depth
Avoid falling into domain dogma; naming, structuring, and communicating ideas clearly for your team and customers

Read Chris’s original LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/chrissaad_the-big-4-execution-mistakes-youre-probably-activity-7379681603847049216-ApcV

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