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Your Strategy Has to Be Flexible — But So Does Your Execution

Harvard Business Review

But excessive complexity can undermine thoughtful execution as much as a failure to specify tactics. Drucker’s exhortation, “What gets measured gets managed” is often invoked when approaching execution. It is also be a mistake to restrict ourselves to managing what we can easily measure. Insight center.

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The 2010 Execution Round-Up: Six Companies That Couldn't 'Get It.

Strategy Driven

It appears Nokia was not able to coordinate decisions and activities across departments or levels of management. Many innovative ideas became the victims of in-fighting among managers who had competing objectives. The BRIDGE that held for Gap Closers #1 and 2 : The Ability to Manage Change. When one million bottles of St.