Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 24, 2017

Guest post from Robin Speculand: Leaders across the world have been taught how to plan but not how to execute. Every university offering a business degree has on their faculty a professor teaching strategy but almost none have a professor teaching its execution. I call this the “Strategy Execution Skills Gap”.

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Execution Strategy Kleiner Norton 211

Six Disciplines

MAY 10, 2011

While all of us agree there's a disconnect between strategy formulation and strategy execution, the developers of the Balanced Scorecard (Robert Kaplan and David Norton) offer up this terrifying observation: On average, 95% of a company's employees are unaware of, or do not understand, its strategy. Find out more today.

Balanced Scorecard 101

Balanced Scorecard Execution Strategy Norton 101

Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In their 2008 book "The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage" (Harvard Business School Press), Harvard professors Dr. Robert S. Plan Operations: improve key processes; develop sales plan; plan resource capacity; prepare budgets. Innovate Purposefully ). Kaplan and Dr. David P. Discipline I.

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System Balanced Scorecard Execution Strategy 98

Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 4, 2011

In their 2008 book "The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage" (Harvard Business School Press), Harvard professors Dr. Robert S. Plan Operations: improve key processes; develop sales plan; plan resource capacity; prepare budgets. Innovate Purposefully ). Kaplan and Dr. David P. Discipline I.

System 85

System Balanced Scorecard Execution Strategy 85

Leading Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Blog Post ) Going on Offense : A Leader’s Playbook for Perpetual Innovation by Behnam Tabrizi (Ideapress Publishing, 2023) Going on Offense is a powerful resource for anyone looking to transform their organization and their people into a perpetual innovator. These titles address how it can be done and how others are doing it.

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Books Leadership Norton Edmondson 285

Strategy Driven

JULY 13, 2011

Since the unit’s reported financial results were so good, the executives at the corporate headquarters didn’t ask many questions about the drivers of the unit’s profits – until it was too late. Pharmaceutical companies have long needed deep scientific-innovation leadership capabilities but relatively few general managers.

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ROIC Balanced Scorecard Metrics McKinsey 62

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

The most motivated and productive people I’ve seen recently work in an older company on the American East Coast deploying innovative technology products to transform a traditional industry. One sales manager, a former actor, recited Shakespeare at a customer meeting and won over skeptical executives. Managing people Motivation'

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Motivation IPO Norton Open-book 9