The leaders and companies who succeed are the ones who do exactly that. The ones that stall are the ones trying to do everything at once. Time is finite. Opportunity cost is an iron law. Every “yes” to something small is a “no” to something that could actually move the needle.
Asked a few companies how they hire FDEs (forward deployed engineers). Head this article from @alexandr_wang referenced a few times as what worked well:
Yes. As I put it earlier:
It’s remarkable how, in field after field, driven by petty grievance and the illusion of victimhood. the United States seems intent on undermining its own greatest strengths.