--- title: Operating for Value | daily.dev description: A senior software executive reflects on six capabilities developed across major career chapters — Discipline (McKinsey), Boldness (Schibsted), Alignment... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/operating-for-value-t0d7p5ykj twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Operating for Value | daily.dev og:description: A senior software executive reflects on six capabilities developed across major career chapters — Discipline (McKinsey), Boldness (Schibsted), Alignment... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/operating-for-value-t0d7p5ykj og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/t0D7P5YkJ.png og:image:alt: Operating for Value og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Operating for Value **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 10 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A senior software executive reflects on six capabilities developed across major career chapters — Discipline (McKinsey), Boldness (Schibsted), Alignment (Bisnode), Resilience (Arundo Analytics), Simplification (ESW Capital), and Operating Systems (Cognite). Each capability is tied to a specific company experience and lesson. Together they form an operating philosophy for building, scaling, and transforming software companies toward durable enterprise value, emphasizing that value is created through good decisions and reliable execution rather than growth or cost-cutting alone. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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