Bill Canady breaks down two essential business roles: the visionary who decides where the company goes and rejects ideas that don't fit, and the operator who turns that vision into weekly plans and owns accountability. Without both, you get quick fixes instead of lasting strategy.
You cannot sprint in architecture. Everybody tries. The visionary, that gives the direction. The visionary owns the answer to 2 questions. Where are we going? And what are we not doing? That's it. That's the job. Once you set a goal, you will be presented with 18 good ideas that are not that goal. And the visionary's job is to say no to 17 of them while people are still watching. The operator, that's execution. The operator converts strategy into weeks, owns the plan, the calendar, the accountability, the follow-through. The operator's question is always the same 2 words: buy when? And then who? Buy when and who?
