Problem #7: Ineffective Sensemaking In my experience in helping companies solve strategy execution problems, they all struggle with the six problems below. Consistently, it is these six problems I’ve most explicitly dealt with over the years. However, I found out that solving strategy execution problems involved solving an overlooked, seventh problem. While initially more unconsciously than consciously, a crucial part in making strategy execution effective was helping down-the-line managers...

The Six Most Acknowledged Strategy Execution Problems The first step in finding the biggest strategy execution problem is identifying the most important problems that are acknowledged already. To this end, I went through all the lists of strategy execution problems and solutions that I have found in publications over the past decades and narrowed them down to the most important ones. This led to the following six key problems. Ineffective communication. The most mentioned problem in strate...

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