The Mismatch

When famed investor Keith Rabois meets with a new CEO, he asks to see:

1) Their priorities

2) Their calendar

They rarely ever match.

He tells them that their goal is to get them to match.

This reminded me of Clayton Christensen: "You can talk all you want about having a strategy for your life, understanding motivation, and balancing aspirations with unanticipated opportunities. But ultimately, this means nothing if you do not align those with where you actually expend your time, money, and energy. In other words, how you allocate your resources is where the rubber meets the road. Real strategy—in companies and in our lives—is created through hundreds of everyday decisions about where we spend our resources. As you’re living your life from day to day, how do you make sure you’re heading in the right direction? Watch where your resources flow. If they’re not supporting the strategy you’ve decided upon, then you’re not implementing that strategy at all."