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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

This has left a skills gap among today’s leaders that heavily contributes to the downfall of company attempts to execute their strategy, resulting in loss of market and shareholder value. Kaplan and David P. I call this the “Strategy Execution Skills Gap”. What’s required to execute strategy has not been taught in the classroom.

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Worries About Short-Termism Are 40 Years Old, but Are They Overblown?

Harvard Business Review

In 2015 Rotman’s Roger Martin reviewed the evidence on both sides here at HBR and explained why he believed short-termism is a problem. In a recent paper , University of Chicago Booth economist Steven Kaplan makes his own case against worrying about short-termism. But not everyone agrees. You’re not convinced.