Capturing a snippet from this: Everything I Got Wrong About Product (So You Don’t Have To) by Paul Brown. All of it is excellent but this bit resonated with me in particular:
“I used to think a great strategy could overcome anything — dependencies, politics, slow decision-making, unclear priorities be damned — but strategy is only as good as the system it has to move through. […]
The operating model is the terrain, and your strategy is just the map; it just isn’t possible to drive a sports car through a swamp.”