But as growth diminishes and global competition intensifies, the question of execution becomes more important.
Polk Laffoon IV Cincinnati, May 19 , 2009 To the Editor: Leaving aside the questions that any leadership researcher would have about David Brooks's column, let's assume the validity of the broad conclusion that execution is more important than "people skills".
If you're buying for yourself, you (presumably) buy 1,000 shares at a time and the quality of execution is more important than the 3-cent-per-share commission.
The execution is more important than the purity".
The truth is that great teams build great companies, because execution is far more important than the idea.
In my opinion execution is far more important, and there are really three core areas that determine your ability to execute on that idea: passion, action, and education.
One of them is that the implementation is partly based on an existing finite domain (FD) constraint solver, which provides a more efficient execution in some examples and, more important, the first complete implementation of disequality constraints over finite types.
Let's not forget "the small matter of execution", one that might prove more important than lofty "strategic" considerations.
Aesop has been a part of the nursery for so long it is hard to imagine a jailed Socrates, awaiting execution, deciding that nothing is more important than turning the Greek slave's fables into poetry.
This is essentially the argument Mr. Martel and his admirers have adopted: a Man Booker Prize juror noted that many of Shakespeare's plays have story lines borrowed from other sources, and added that the execution of an idea is more important than its origin.
