You should always know how you're doing against your metrics. You should always have a weekly review meeting every week.

... but the pendulum has swung way out of whack here. A bad idea is still bad, and the pivot happy world we're in today feels suboptimal.

Share results (financial and key metrics) with the company every month.

You need to figure out what the 2 or 3 most important things are, and then just do those.

There are exceptions of course, but most companies start with a great idea - not a pivot.

One thing that often disrupts momentum and really shouldn't is competitors.

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.