Great Leadership By Dan

AUGUST 24, 2017

Change management, which is taught, has been the default approach for strategy execution, but it is a subset of execution and more importantly does not work for implementing corporate strategy. 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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Harvard Business Review

MAY 2, 2018

It first influenced business decades ago, through the development of an unmistakably hard skill that senior managers must master: strategic planning. As Art Kleiner described in the The Age of Heretics , Wack had “a lifelong preoccupation with the art of what he called ‘seeing.'”

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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 23, 2017

” 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. The academic literature as well as our consulting experience suggest that the ability to prioritize is a key ingredient to an enterprise leadership team’s success.

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