Execution is Everything

Strategy is everything. Or maybe strategy is nothing. Nobody ever becomes anything just by thinking about it. Same way companies that rely on fancy strategies from expensive over creamed consultants never get any where.
What’s the rant?
Watch the insane video on this link and you understand: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHSUp7msCIE

Execution is everything.
I have studied countless organizations and the biggest problem I see isn’t lack of strategy or smart guys but just lack of execution. It isn’t even lack of process or policy documents. It’s the lack of discipline to follow one.
A poor process well followed is way better than a good one not adhere to.
Two Ferraris backing each other with a link chain between them can rev as high as they want; A stupid snail will blaze past them.

Author: Adedeji Olowe

Adédèjì is the founder of Lendsqr, the loan infrastructure fintech powering lenders at scale. Before this, he led Trium Limited, the corporate VC of the Coronation Group, which invested in Woven Finance, Sparkle Bank, Clane, and L1ght, amongst others. He has almost two decades of banking experience, including stints as the Divisional Head of Electronic Banking at Fidelity Bank Plc. He drove the turnaround of the bank’s digital business. He was previously responsible for United Bank for Africa Group’s payment card business across 19 countries. Alongside other industry veterans, he founded Open Banking Nigeria, the nonprofit driving the development and adoption of a common API standard for the Nigerian financial industry. Beyond open APIs, Adédèjì works deeply within the fintech ecosystem; he’s the board chairman at Paystack. Adédèjì is a renowned fintech pundit and has been blogging on technology and payments at dejiolowe.com since 2001.

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