Recent events put a fine point on the old managerial maxim that “good ideas competently executed will always beat brilliant ones poorly executed.” The I-4 expansion, a good idea, and development of the COVID-19 vaccine, a brilliant one, have both been decimated by atrocious execution. I-4 Ultimate is hundreds of millions of dollars over budget and delayed by years; the vaccine is burdened by destroyed stockpiles, poorly planned distribution and a lack of federal and state coordination. With the amount of effort that went into both, we may want to pay more attention to execution at this point.
Originally posted for the Orlando Sentinel’s Central Florida 100.