In chapter 6 of Ascend Your Start-Up, when Yu states "I needed to architect the outcome. I knew the choices I made were stepping stones to what I wanted to achieve in life..." I felt that to the core. It reminded me of a Tony Robbins quote, "Decisions decide destiny, there is no action without decision."
Life puts you at a crossroads--left or right? go forward or back? Each choice is a decision with consequences that may or may not be known. So having a vision is important to remind one of the destination, even when the path is not quite crystalized. The journey is the adventure, where each experience, event, interaction, thought should be viewed through the lens of the vision. That's not to say that there won't be setbacks, hurdles, or failures along the way. What it does say is that recalibration is necessary to ensure success.
"Success is systemized by establishing processes to make results repeatable and dependable," Yu says. If you don't have the experience of knowing what process will yield positive results, you must seek individuals, to be in your organization, on your team, that bring that knowledge with them, as a sherpa for your own journey. This will save time, "time is money and efficiency creates time." It's like muscle memory. Muscle memory is where one consolidates a specific motor task (tensing and relaxing particular muscles) into memory through repetition. This also has the added benefit of building confidence, familiarity, and capability in your own skill(s).
How does one know one has succeeded? Arrival at the destination? Sure. How is that measured, especially across function-based teams? One suggestion is to establish objectives and key results to conquer process and measure disconnect. This ensures that each team understands their role and contribution to the organization's mission, aligning strategy with execution all while driving accountability. Genius.
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