Additional research in 2025 from The Strategy Brief reinforces the theme: 80 percent of teams are not aligned on what matters most, and 79 percent of organizations admit lacking effective strategy ...

To make sense of the growing attention to strategy execution, we first need to understand what this trend looks like—and whether it is actually a trend, a temporary peak, or something else. Since we ...

While many companies focus on developing plans, the most important element in planning is implementation. Making the plan happen is critical as it is the actual execution that leads to results.

Many CPA firms don't have a living, breathing strategic plan that enables them to successfully navigate through their next two or three years. Processing Content That in and of itself is not very ...

A grand strategy can lead the way to small business success, but companies must be structured in such a way as to encourage good strategy execution to achieve real results. To accomplish this, a ...

It is striking how much confusion there is between strategy, implementation, and execution. Is “strategy” a matter of making choices about where we want to go, where we play and how we win, of setting ...

Pick one: sound business strategy or perfect execution? For some leaders, this may be an easy choice, but for others, it’s not so black-and-white. It's a difficult debate to resolve because, like most ...

If you have spent the majority of your career executing tasks for others, the jump to a strategy-focused role can feel abrupt and challenging. Instead of receiving tasks and seeing them through to ...

The COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine have in recent years presented many business leaders with difficult choices and short timelines on which to make important decisions with plenty ...