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Each week, executives spend the bulk of their time communicating with each other and their teams to align the strategy and programs with business goals. They collaborate across departments, incorporating new data to adjust the course as needed. Many startup executives who come from working at larger companies struggle with the balance of execution and strategy. You have to “zoom in and out” as executive coach and former Microsoft North America CFO John Rex calls it, and do execution as well as strategic work.

In addition to the general management of others and their team, a startup executive owns a department or “function” and its goals. A department is usually a team of teams and the overall strategy, vision, and goals that this person sets for their department must roll up to the overall business goals, which are translated to their team's sub‐goals.