Six Disciplines

JUNE 23, 2011

"The greatest strategy in the world is useless - if you cannot execute it.". Here are the seven critical elements of strategy execution: People. However, it's not the senior leadership team that executes strategy - it's everyone in your workforce. Strategy formulation often gathers the "smartest people in the room."

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Six Disciplines

SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.” - Jack Welch. In our view, the fault nearly always lies in the company’s strategy execution process. You have to pay attention to the human factor and design a strategy execution process which takes it into consideration.

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 21, 2011

Though executives may formulate an excellent strategy, it easily fades from memory as the organization tackles day-to-day operations issues, or what most think of as "fighting fires.". Senior management teams needs to have regular, probably monthly, meetings that focus only on strategy.

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Balanced Scorecard Execution Strategy Kaplan 101

Six Disciplines

JULY 20, 2011

A survey conducted by the Cognos/Palladium Group, entitled " Making Strategy Execution a Competitive Advantage " included responses from 143 strategy-management professionals. BOTTOMLINE: It's no wonder that 90% of organizations fail to execute their strategies! How can people execute a strategy if they don't know what it is?

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Six Disciplines

MAY 3, 2011

Ohio-based Consulting Firm Sees Growth Through Strategy Execution Coaching Program. “Six Disciplines is the only program that offers a complete strategy execution framework extending from the corner office to front line personnel. At the end of the day, it is about results. ” Overall business performance both in the U.S.

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 13, 2011

Effective execution of strategy seems to be an elusive goal. As Fortune Magazine noted in 1982, "Less than 10% of strategies effectively formulated are effectively executed.". Fortune again noted in 1999, "In the majority of cases - we estimate 70% - the real problem isn't bad strategy -- it's bad execution.". Kaplan and D.

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Norton Kaplan Execution Strategy 101

Six Disciplines

MARCH 24, 2011

In a Harvard Business Publishing article " Lessons Learned from 30 Years of Leadership ", Dick Harrington, former CEO of Thomson Reuters discussed the three most significant lessons learned over his very successful 30-year career as a Fortune 250 executive. What about the execution focus?

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Six Disciplines

DECEMBER 5, 2014

In a survey of 163 CEOs by Forbes Insights in conjunction with the Association for Strategic Planning and the Council of Public Relations Firms, chief executives report that one-third of corporate strategies fail, and they fail for five reasons. There is a lack of accountability or of holding the team responsible (13 percent).

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 6, 2015

One research report revelad that 85% of leadership teams spend less than 1 hour a month discussing strategy. The barrier isn''t usually the strategy itself -- 90% of strategies fail due to execution. Write the strategy down (3-4 pages max), share it with all team members and give them an opportunity to react and engage.

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Core Competence Short-term Long-term Fashion 70

Six Disciplines

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

Six Disciplines’ program combines continuous business improvement methodology based on proven best-practices, an innovative add-in for Microsoft Outlook, and coaching services to increase self-leadership effectiveness. In the leadership area, Bluffton currently achieves a 23 out of a maximum 25 score. Measuring Success.

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Six Disciplines

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

There are four "waves" that every successful business goes through, and it can be described in two dimensions: strategy (deciding what to do) and execution (getting it done). SUGGESTION: Take a minute right now, print off this post with the above model, and hand it to your leadership team.

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Succession Execution Strategy Organization 106

Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

The complete Six Disciplines Video Library is now available for anyone interested in understanding more about the business challenges we solve using the Six Disciplines strategy execution coaching program. Execution (Working The Plan). Executive Coaching (Begin There, But Don't Stop There). Innovation (Innovate Purposefully).

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Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Step Back , is to get your leadership team to use their experience and judgement to begin narrowing the focus of planning toward your organization's most important strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. The purpose of looking at strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in Discipline VI.

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Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Step Back , is to get your leadership team to use their experience and judgement to begin narrowing the focus of planning toward your organization's most important strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. The purpose of looking at strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats in Discipline VI.

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Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Ann Arbor-Based Firm Sees Growth through Strategy Execution Coaching Program. Six Disciplines is unique in the burgeoning industry of business coaching because of its completeness, which involves the integration of a proven business-building methodology, accountability coaching, and innovative Outlook-based execution software.

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Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 7, 2011

Execution can go wrong for a variety of reasons: One of the most basic is allowing the focus of the strategy to shift over time. The challenge of execution is mostly a matter of alignment -- getting the right product or service to the right customer at the right time, or simply - doing the right things right.

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Six Disciplines

AUGUST 1, 2011

It's building an organization that can execute strategy, while overcoming the unending stream of daily surprises. It's what we refer to as the "Growth Paradox": the better you execute, the bigger the challenges you'll face. Building an organization that can plan, execute, and systematically address daily surprises is not easy.

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Core Competence Executive Coaching Software Reference 103

Six Disciplines

AUGUST 1, 2011

It's building an organization that can execute strategy, while overcoming the unending stream of daily surprises. It's what we refer to as the "Growth Paradox": the better you execute, the bigger the challenges you'll face. Building an organization that can plan, execute, and systematically address daily surprises is not easy.

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Core Competence Executive Coaching Software Reference 98

Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

In a recent Wall Street Journal article, " Inventing Management 2.0 ", Professor Gary Hamel talks about leadership development, change, and offers his insights as to what needs to change, in order to progress to Management 2.0. How teams get built. Read the New York Times Bestseller: Six Disciplines Execution Revolution.

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Six Disciplines

MARCH 28, 2011

In a survey of 163 CEOs by Forbes Insights, chief executives report that one-third of corporate strategies fail, and they fail for five reasons. 13% - There is a lack of accountability or of holding the team responsible. 13% - There is a lack of accountability or of holding the team responsible.

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Strategy Core Competence Download Survey 98

Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 20, 2015

When we work with firms to shore up their ability to execute strategy, one of the things that must often take place is a shift in management style. This is a challenge for those executives and leaders who have fixed ideas about how to get others to do their work. Growth Wave: Strong strategy, weak execution.

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Six Disciplines

FEBRUARY 28, 2014

Indeed, more often than not, there are disconnects or gaps between the strategy that is formulated by the senior leadership team, and how the strategy is executed by the rest of the workforce. Why the gaps? Could be for a number of reasons: The strategy is not accessible/available to the workforce. The strategy is not sound.

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Six Disciplines

APRIL 18, 2011

Direction —disconnect between planning, strategy and execution. A strategy execution coaching program is an organized approach to grow an organization's ability to deal with an ever-changing—and increasingly challenging—business environment. Software to align the activities of every team member every day.

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Executive Coaching Risk Management Software Definition 101

Six Disciplines

OCTOBER 6, 2015

Apart from nicer offices and bigger paychecks, the perceived difference is that leadership usually stays hands-off on the execution side of things and focuses mostly on strategy. A way to sum up this thought would be: “Leadership develops the vision, management executes it.”. There are five levels of leadership: Strategy.

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Six Disciplines

JULY 14, 2011

The six fundamental disciplines involve strategy, planning, organizing, executing, innovating, and organizational learning. Whereas Disciplines I, II, and III are part of the strategy and planning process, Discipline IV is lived out (executed) by every person, every day. Discipline I - Decide What's Important.

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