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Nine Key Strategies for Going Beyond Great

Leading Blog

Strategy #8: Thrive with Talent. They must fundamentally shift how they find, inspire, and develop a twenty-first-century workforce. Strategy #9: Embrace Always-On Transformation. Bureaucracy and distance from the customer are death in an age of volatility—and today’s leading-edge firms know it.

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Strategy, Capability & Really Bad Advice

N2Growth Blog

Strategy should never be dumbed down to match capability. In fact, quite the opposite – capability should always be in the process of being upgraded to keep pace with strategy. Great leaders find a way to develop and/or acquire the best capability in order to create a certainty of execution around a winning strategy.

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The Edge: How 10 CEOs Learned to Lead—and the Lessons for Us All

Leading Blog

From Nokia Growth Partners’ Bo Ilsoe , we were reminded that a company may be struggling for traction not because its strategy is misdirected, but because it has the wrong individual at the top, and that for finding the right leader a meticulous and disciplined appraisal is essential for ensuring effective execution of the firm’s strategy.

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Stop Letting the Latest Trend Dictate How You Run Your Company

Leading Blog

If a company puts its talent first in its strategy and decision-making, these problems won’t arise in the first place. Learn more at vertical elevation.com. * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *

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The Secret to Changing Your Culture When It Doesn’t Align with Your Strategy

Leading Blog

Every time you become aware of a time when your organization does not deliver on its strategy, there is a possible culture-changing story there.” * * * Follow us on Instagram and Twitter for additional leadership and personal development ideas. * * *

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The Disconnect Between Strategy And Execution

Six Disciplines

While all of us agree there's a disconnect between strategy formulation and strategy execution, the developers of the Balanced Scorecard (Robert Kaplan and David Norton) offer up this terrifying observation: On average, 95% of a company's employees are unaware of, or do not understand, its strategy.

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The Biggest Challenge In Business? I'ts Not What You Think

Six Disciplines

BOTTOMLINE: Building an organization that executes its strategy is the greatest core competence an organization can have -- and doing so is the greatest challenge in business. Strategy development involves a few people, periodically, but execution involves every team member, every minute of every day.