I hear and read this everywhere: “If only I had a good idea, then I could X”. Replace X by “start a business”, “get rich”, “change something”, etc.

The reality is that good ideas are often badly executed and the end result is no better than if it had been a bad idea at first.

So, it’s not about getting good ideas. It’s about executing well.

Of course every metric is crap, every ranking is crap and every top 10 list doesn’t deserve anybody’s attention.

Are they really bad or just bad when you don’t make it into the ranking?

Getting everybody involved in decision making is a good idea to please everybody, but it’s impossible to take the best decision.

It makes everybody feel part of it, but makes making the decision actually impossible: too many compromises are involved.