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by Harvard Business Review
Why Strategy Execution Unravels—and What to Do About It
by Donald Sull, Rebecca Homkes, and Charles Sull
SINCE MICHAEL PORTER’S seminal work in the 1980s we have had a clear and widely accepted definition of what strategy is—but we know a lot less about translating a strategy into results. Books and articles on strategy outnumber those on execution by an order of magnitude. And what little has been written on execution tends to focus on tactics or generalize from a single case. So what do we know about strategy execution?
We know that it matters. A recent survey of more than 400 global CEOs found that executional excellence was the number one challenge facing corporate leaders in Asia, Europe, and the United States, heading a list of some 80 ...
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