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Why Is Strategy Execution So Hard? The Odds Are Against Us

Six Disciplines

Effective execution of strategy seems to be an elusive goal. Only 27% of a typical company’s employees have access to its strategic plan. [3]. Norton, Harvard Business School Press, The Strategy-Focused Organization, 2001). [2] Norton, Harvard Business School Press, The Strategy-Focused Organization, 2001). [3]

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What Can Hedgehogs Teach Us About Strategy?

LDRLB

However, Hughes and Beatty (2005) assert that true strategy must begin and stay focused on strategic thinking, not planning. Hughes and Beatty borrow this concept from Collins’ (2001) Hedgehog Concept, which itself is borrowed from a poem by Isaiah Berlin. Collins, J. Good to great. New York, NY: HarperBusiness.

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Developing a Leadership Training Program for High Potentials: A Case Study

Great Leadership By Dan

Successful organizations know what skills are required for a leader to be effective for the organization to meet its long term strategic goals and grow and prosper. Long term vision/goal setting and the ability to communicate that to the organization. Strategic planning. Strategic thinking. Team leadership.

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What Sales Teams Should Do to Prepare for the Next Recession

Harvard Business Review

In the 2001 recession, total sales for the S&P 500 declined by 9% from its pre-recession peak to its trough 18 months later—almost a year after the recession officially ended. AI-supported A/B testing in fast cycles can determine best price points at a SKU level to achieve margin and volume goals. Iterative machine learning.

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Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 1 of 4

Strategy Driven

I have learned that strategic planning for crises can avert them 85% of the time. There have been far-reaching business after-effects from the attacks on September 11, 2001. In the fourth quarter of 2001, there were 408 extended mass layoff events, involving 114,711 workers, directly or indirectly attributed to the attacks.

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The Big Picture of Business – Achieving the Best by Preparing for the Worst: Lessons Learned from High-Profile Crises, part 3 of 4

Strategy Driven

Most often (85% of the time), they can be heeded, planned for averted. It must be included as part of a formal Strategic Planning and Visioning process. No single facet of planning should be done out of sync with the others. The City of New York had conducted planning for multiple contingencies.

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Read Good To Great

Eric Jacobson

The book, five years in the making, and published in 2001, addresses the all-important question of: Can a good company become a great company, and if so, how? "Great Places To Work" Employee Perks New Book Shows You How To Set A Goal And Then Reac. Honor The Legacy Of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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