Successful Strategy Implementation When It Comes To Strategy Implementation, It's All About Resolve
In my work with leadership teams on strategy, we inevitably get to a place where implementation is the next step in the process. And, as David Maister points out in Strategy and the Fat Smoker, the real outcome of our strategy conversations is not analytical insight but improved resolve. By the time we’ve made our decisions, we know what to do, we know why we should do it, and most often know how to do it.
When you think about it, successful implementation is about actually doing what everybody knows they should do. But the reality is that we often just don’t do it.
Why this dilemma when intentions are good? In a very similar analogy to improved fitness, some key reasons include.... (cont'd)
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