Be suspicious of any work that is not building product or getting customers.
Losing focus is another way that founders get off track.
What you want to do is innovate on your product and your business model, management structure is not where I would try and innovate.
As long as you keep doing the right thing and have the best product, you can beat the bigger company.
The way to have a company that executes well is you have to execute well yourself.
It's difficult to get large groups of people, to the extreme levels of focus and productivity that you need, for a startup to be successful.