Walk the talk

A really interesting article about the need to walk the talk in terms of strategy. Strategy is only 30% about formulation - the rest is actually making sure the defined path is trailed. And usually problems stem from execution. Because, too often too much attention (the best talent, external resources, senior management time) is devoted to the formulation process, and execution is left primarily to teams who had minimal participation in the previous steps. There isn't a deliberate thinking of resources to implement the strategy. There are gaps in objectives formulation and their cascading through the teams. There is not enough confrontation and challenge of implementation. And that makes strategies go off and not produce the expected results. <p><p>

http://blogs.hbr.org/ashkenas/2012/05/why-strategies-go-off-the-rail.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter