Sequence
Sequence is critical. A cart that is in front of the horse is hard to move.
Other, more business focused mistakes include:
Putting work before personal lifestyle
Putting strategy before tactics (endemic)
Putting “just do it” before planning
Putting product before market
Putting medium before message
Putting opportunity before criteria
I’ll explain each in more detail over the coming weeks and months but for now it would probably be very good for the development of your strategic thinking if you print this out, grab yourself a drink (any variety will work fine) and try to figure out what the hell I am talking about.
Failure to get sequence right leads to a lot of people working really hard and not getting far, like the cart before the horse.