I like this a lot: using long-term discussions to better plan near-term work. Probably leads to better conversations overall, and a better understanding of the “why”.
When I ask people close to Zuckerberg how, exactly, he has pulled off these achievements, I don’t hear a lot of anecdotes about him swooping in and personally making genius-level decisions that suddenly changed everything. Instead, they praise his inquisitiveness, persistence, ability to deploy resources, and devotion to improving Facebook and himself. He has a knack for carving up grand plans into small, doable victories. “Most of our conversation was about long-term strategy, and then we’d backtrack from there to what we should do over the next month,”
From a great article about Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook’s long-term plan.