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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. I call this the “Strategy Execution Skills Gap”. For this to happen companies need to invest in closing the Strategy Execution Skills Gap.

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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. It takes the whole brain—intuition and analytic skills—to do it well.

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

Harvard Business Review

Mindfulness is now seen as a crucial skill in business. It first influenced business decades ago, through the development of an unmistakably hard skill that senior managers must master: strategic planning. Kwanchai Lerttanapunyaporn / EyeEm/Getty Images. But although mindfulness may seem to be a fairly new phenomenon, it’s not.