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Why do strategies fail? And why do they fail to be effectively executed so often? These are the seven deadly sins of strategy execution.
Time and again, research shows how difficult it is to generate and execute strategy. From the many lists of causes, I like this one by Johnson, Scholes and Whittington in their bestselling strategy textbook “Exploring Strategy.”
As they report, there are seven main failings in strategy and change management. They are the seven deadly sins of strategy execution:
• Death by Planning. An overemphasis on analysis...