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What is execution? It seems that in some way, it's analogous to success itself. If you make apparently terrible decisions but your business succeeds despite you, would anyone really call that bad execution? If good execution equals success, then is it helpful to know that good execution equals success?

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I define execution as "doing something every day to keep making progress". It could be hiring someone, write that one small piece of code, creating a landing page or marketing content, talking to that customer, reaching out to a prospect, solving a problem for the team etc etc. Anything that is a step towards possible success. It is not a binary thing. Sometimes you do things that has a bad outcome. But if you do it over a long period and keep doing it with lessons learned and you succeed, that is execution.

How does this type of definition apply to something like Flappy Bird? Would you call that poor execution?

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