I love being in the room when there are 30,000 foot white board meetings about the future. I also enjoy the planning phase of determining what needs to be done and how we will do it. At the end of the day though, unless the people who are responsible for actual execution do their job its all a waste. This HBR post is nails it:
“Most people recognize that execution is a critical skill and strive to perform it well, but they may a) underestimate how important it is to their career advancement or b) not realize that you can improve on execution without working longer hours. On the first point, bosses place a premium on execution, which we define as the ability to achieve individual goals and objectives.”