Thoughts on Execution

Is your leadership team’s lack of discipline entirely their fault?

Is your leadership team’s lack of discipline entirely their fault?

One of the most common reasons companies stall or plateau is a leadership team that doesn’t follow through on its commitments. Let me be clear – everyone needs to be…
Celebrate business founders – but for the right reason

Celebrate business founders – but for the right reason

“Most of you will fail, disrespected, impoverished, but we are grateful for the risks you are taking and the sacrifices you are making for the sake of the economic growth…
You can’t have it all. But you can have what’s important

You can’t have it all. But you can have what’s important

I get somewhat fed up seeing and hearing advice about how you can “have it all”. Sure, at some level, usually a transactional one, you can go from either/or to…

Reasons your team won’t do what you told them to do

One of the most common frustrations I’ve heard from CEOs and managers more generally is “But I told them ….” Whether it’s to do something or to behave a certain…

Where strategy goes to die #8 – A masterpiece of spreadsheets, not humans

A strategy articulated by the most beautiful and elegant diagram of neatly-fitting geometric shapes is often laid waste by the less elegant actions of totally ungeometrically-shaped and unpredictable objects. Humans.…

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