Speaker (Nate Tilley) argues that businesses commonly chase one large "home run" success, which is risky because a single failure prevents reaching goals. He recommends breaking big goals into hundreds of small wins and stacking them so individual failures are absorbed by other successes, making overall growth more reliable.
Most people just think of that big win they want to achieve that big overarching home run. If they just connect the ball and have it shoot out of the stadium, all will be well. A lot of the time, that is a very hard task to do. The big change that I urge you to make is, instead of looking at those big home run hits that you need to hit, take those home runs, break them down, stack hundreds and hundreds of small wins that make up a monster, monster win. If one thing goes wrong, there's so many other things that can go right that will overcome that one thing that goes bad. But if you've just got one big thing that you want to hit and something goes wrong, then you don't get to the promised land. And that brings us to the next point, which is.
