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The strategy execution gap is a measurement problem
Companies measure whether the plan was written, not whether behaviour changed. Those are different questions, and only one of them matters.
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Boards are good at asking what happened. They are considerably worse at asking what is not happening, and why nobody raised it.
Read the essay →Against the first hundred days
The convention pushes new chief executives to act before they understand. The bill arrives in year two, and it is usually large.
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