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

Six Disciplines

After two decades of the application of even the most modern and innovative business principles, the problem remains. 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] Cited Sources: [1] (R.

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Strategic Insight is Not on the CEO Radar

Harvard Business Review

In 2001, Peter Drucker wrote in The Economist that "businesspeople stand on the threshold of the knowledge society. Our research also uncovered four possible causes for CEOs' lack of interest: Insight is confused with innovation : Insight is often confused with innovation, which is on the CEO top-ten list.

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