Vision VS Execution in Leadership | Ep 394
The Futur with Chris Do
The Futur
4.9 • 998 Ratings
🗓️ 1 November 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You have to ask yourself this question. |
| 0:02.0 | Which one do I gravitate towards more? |
| 0:05.0 | Am I a big picture person with a long-term vision? |
| 0:09.0 | Or am I a person who understands how to make things run to make it profitable and to make it efficient? |
| 0:17.0 | In the capacity in which you're going to run your company, |
| 0:19.0 | I find that people tend to break in one of two ways. |
| 0:23.2 | Number one is they're a CEO type, which is forecasting, innovation, and long-term vision. |
| 0:29.6 | They're usually ADHD. |
| 0:31.7 | They're high-level thinkers, the 30,000-foot view from a plane, and they're not quite really good at detail stuff. And then you have the other |
| 0:39.0 | personality, which is more of the C-O-O-Chief operating officer. They're really good at optimizing and |
| 0:45.5 | running meetings and making sure things hit on a spreadsheet. They're needed because otherwise |
| 0:49.9 | work starts to fall through the cracks. We sign contracts that don't represent our intentions |
| 0:55.1 | or people aren't being hired or scheduled or being brought on the team in a way that is |
| 1:00.9 | appropriate, efficient, or conducive to doing the best work. Some very rare people exhibit both |
| 1:07.7 | traits, that they're good at high-level vision and really fine detail. |
| 1:12.3 | And then the ops person that they work with, just make sure everything gets done. |
| 1:16.7 | Such a person is something like Steve Jobs, who has the long-term vision, the 5, 10, 20-year plan |
| 1:22.4 | of seeing a device and saying maybe we should make a buttonless phone. |
| 1:27.3 | That's big picture thinking, |
| 1:28.6 | vision, and having the ability to negotiate with large telecom companies saying, hey, we want to add |
| 1:33.7 | this new feature called visual voicemail, which later on becomes a standard. And this is a classic |
| 1:38.8 | story where Steve went to a bunch of different companies, but AT&T is the one who said, we will do |
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