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How the Most Successful Teams Bridge the Strategy-Execution Gap

Harvard Business Review

” In their seminal HBR piece , Paul Leinwand, Cesare Mainardi, and Art Kleiner outlined what senior leaders must do to close the strategy-to-execution gap. Commit to an identity. In short, the organization must commit to focus on what it is good at and then go after it. Action without vision is a nightmare.”

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How VC John Doerr Sets (and Achieves) Goals

Harvard Business Review

Since joining Kleiner Perkins in 1980, venture capitalist John Doerr has helped fund Intuit, Amazon, Google, Twitter, and a host of other well-known tech companies. And if the leader’s not committed, don’t bother. Morgan to commit to deploy it throughout their company. Commitment is third. They have.

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