Being busy vs. being strategic (and executives who can’t tell them apart)

Look at this. It’s from here:

Yep. But see, the thing is, it’s about much more than meetings and emails. Those are time sucks, for sure, but the picture is bigger than this.

How is “the most important thing for success” something we lack time for?

Few different reasons:

• “Strategy is important for success” is something you say on a survey. It’s not something you actually believe.
• To most people, work is about control, plain and simple.
• You achieve control through adherence to process and checkpoints above all.
• We call that “executing” and those that do that well get promoted up the chain.
• It’s not really because they are strategic and innovative, no — it’s because they take shit from the plates of people that make more money, they do the shit, when it goes wrong they eat the shit, and they do that long enough that they get to throw the shit at others.
• By the time you get to the top of this pyramid at most…