September 2025
Intermediate to advanced
256 pages
4h 52m
English
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Strategy, Updated and Expanded (featuring "The Five Competitive Forces That Shape Strategy" by Michael E. Porter)
by Harvard Business Review, Michael E. Porter, W. Chan Kim, Renee Mauborgne, Roger L. Martin
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Why Isn’t Your Strategy Sticking?
by Andrea Belk Olson
In 1992, Robert Kaplan and David Norton identified four barriers to effective strategy implementation: lack of understanding, lack of communication, disconnected incentives, and disconnected budgets. Over the decades, other experts have expanded on this list, identifying additional barriers including unaligned goals, insufficient resources, and inadequate performance tracking. Yet successful strategy implementation is still an ongoing struggle today. Are leaders simply not communicating well enough? Or does the intrinsic problem lie elsewhere?
The true problem lies not with the tactical aspects of strategy implementation but with psychological ones. When leaders think about the ...
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