This is interesting because it's what I suspect happens (Too much focus on execution creates skill/career stagnation), but I'm too early in my career to know for sure.
People who fast track that step too much are not on a stable footing. You can probably sometimes get away with it, which is why we see the kind of "thought leadering" shared in the OP ... but I'll say that I'm "only" ~10 years in to my career and I've already seen quite a few instances of VP+ people who bet the farm on some nonsense and end up flaming out.
Read and Follow this instead: "Speech given by Dave Packard to HP Managers" - https://gizmodo.com/the-hp-way-how-bill-hewlett-and-i-built-... (they founded Silicon Valley).