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Leaders Can’t Execute Strategy

Great Leadership By Dan

Every university offering a business degree has on their faculty a professor teaching strategy but almost none have a professor teaching its execution. 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.

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How to Put Leadership Back into Strategy

LDRLB

[Editor’s Note: We’re delighted to be collaborating with Strategy+Business to bring you interviews with top thought leaders in leadership, innovation, and strategt. This post is adapted from a larger interview conducted by Ken Favaro and Art Kleiner. MONTGOMERY: Think about who does strategy in most large companies.

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Clayton Christensen on “The Discipline of Managing Disruption”

First Friday Book Synopsis

a primary task of leadership is asking questions that anticipate great challenges. Here is a brief excerpt from an interview conducted by Art Kleiner for strategy+business magazine, published by Bain & Company. To Harvard professor Clayton Christensen, coauthor of How Will You Measure Your Life?,

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The Thought Leader Interview: David Kantor

First Friday Book Synopsis

Here is Art Kleiner‘s Introduction to an interview of David Kantor, an eminent systems therapist who says that learning to recognize the hidden patterns in conversation is the first step toward more effective executive leadership.

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Prompt, Precise Performance Reviews

Tony Mayo

You might wonder, “If I manage like this, how will I ever get my own work done?” Practice this management style consistently, however, and most of your coworkers will require very little of your time. The day before meeting, your coworker brings you a list of five or six key objectives, detailing her progress on each.

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How the Most Successful Teams Bridge the Strategy-Execution Gap

Harvard Business Review

The strategy-to-execution gap is an enduring problem with no easy solution. ” 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. Translate strategy into everyday processes and capabilities.

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Mindfulness as a Management Technique Goes Back to at Least the 1970s

Harvard Business Review

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.'”