Thoughts on Execution

Where Your Strategy Goes to Die #4 – The PowerPoint Cemetery

PowerPoint lures many a finely-honed strategy into its lair, where it then suffocates all life from it. And the ugliest of those deaths even have spreadsheets copied into the slide…

Where Your Strategy Goes to Die #3 – Playing the field

You’ve put the ring on your strategy’s finger as a leadership team. But no sooner you’ve walked out the room than a member of the leadership team presses you with…

Where your strategy goes to die #2: 30% of 10 ≠ 100% of 3

I remember sitting in a leadership team strategy awayday some years back where the team agreed on its 14 priorities. … 14. Fourteen. … More than double the number of…

Where Your Strategy Goes to Die #1 – A wish-list of serious sounding business words

Here are 3 strategic objectives I’ve seen more than once: Employee engagement Marketing Customer retention Trouble is they’re not strategic objectives. They’re topics. Functions. At best a wish-list of stuff…

Are you a mini-Boris? Am I? Are we all?

On climate, on social issues, on using business for good – are we all mini-Borises? Boris’s climate policies and plans (inasmuch as they exist) fall a long way short of…
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