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Why Strategy Fails—And How To Make Sure Yours Doesn’t

Every year, executive teams around the world spend months crafting strategies—only to find, 12 months later, that they’ve barely moved the needle. The numbers don’t lie: More than 70% of strategies fail to deliver their intended results. The issue isn’t usually the strategy itself. It’s what happens—or more often doesn’t happen—after strategy design ends. Having worked with […]

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9EOI, Strategic Thinking, Strategy

What the Heck is a Strategy anyway?

A couple of days ago, I posed this question to my LinkedIn network. There was a flood of responses that unveiled the essence of strategy in its various forms, partly inspired by thought leaders. Here’s a breakdown of the collective wisdom, highlighting some of the most interesting perspectives: Maximum Force at Weakest Point: Pinpointing vulnerabilities

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9EOI, Leadership, Strategy

From Time Teller to Clock Builder – How I Failed to Lead and Started Over

The first leadership job typically comes to a person because they are great at what they do. And because they master their subject, someone thinks the expert would make a great leader, teaching others how to do it. That someone often doesn’t understand much about leadership in the first place. Subject matter expertise has little

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