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The Disconnect Between Strategy And Execution

Six Disciplines

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.

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Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy: A book review by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

Harvard Business Review on Aligning Technology with Strategy Various Contributors Harvard Business Review Press (2011) How and why technology should support your organization’s strategy…not the other way around This is one of the volumes in a series of anthologies of articles that first appeared in Harvard Business Review.

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What Makes Six Disciplines for Excellence A Different Kind Of Business Book

Six Disciplines

“Here’s what differentiates this book: it bridges concept and principles to execution.” “Full of incredibly useful tools and charts -- all about how small businesses execute strategy.” ” (David Daniels, Business & Technology Reinvention). Most importantly this book is about execution.”

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The Best Leadership Books of 2023

Leading Blog

Master of Change : How to Excel When Everything Is Changing – Including You by Brad Stulberg (HarperOne, 2023) From social disruptions like economic recessions, pandemics, and new technologies to individual disruptions like getting married, career transitions, and becoming a parent, we undergo change and transformation—both good and bad—regularly.

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Performance Measurement

Strategy Driven

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. Some examples include new technologies, changes in customer preferences, new ways of serving customers, and disruptive threats.

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CEOs, Get to Know Your Rivals

Harvard Business Review

I decided to test his claim by interviewing current and former C-suite executives, including Bob Crandall, former CEO of American Airlines; David Norton, former CMO of Harrah’s casinos; Will Ethridge, CEO of Pearson Education; and Pat O’Keefe, former CEO of Watts Water Technologies. Play to your strengths, not your rival’s.

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How to Let Go at the End of the Workday

Harvard Business Review

Technology has, of course, exacerbated the problem, offering both convenience and imposition, by putting our workplaces just a touch screen away. In my practice counseling executives, I encourage them to use end-of-day routines to create a psychological barrier between their two worlds. Start the evening on a positive note.

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