“70% of Strategic Failures are due to Poor Execution by the Leader.”
Dr. Ram Charan, leading thinker, coach and co-author of the seminal work titled “Execution”
The execution conundrum is faced by every organization in one form or another. It appears that execution is taking place, but far too often, there is little to show for it at the end of everything. People are busy doing their work, managers are fully occupied keeping the day to day business running, and leaders are wondering why, in spite of all this, their strategy isn’t yielding the results they want.
That’s because people are busy doing what they HAVE to do, not what they NEED to do. There’s little alignment between strategy and day-to-day work. Day to day priorities are urgent; they take over, leaving no room for anything else.
Much like communication, the greatest challenge in execution is the illusion that it has occurred. A great strategy backed up with passionately communicating goals to the staff does not result in execution. Just because the leaders know what needs to be done doesn’t mean their staff knows it or will do it.
We can help you with execution!
- Assess your organization’s execution capability
- Define clear organizational focus & align frontline
- Engage employees directly in meaningful work
- Create and maintain a discipline of execution
- Establish a rigor of review
We can help you with the foundations!
- Org structures to support execution priorities
- Rewards systems aligned with execution priorities
- The resources required to achieve the goal
- Well defined processes & deliverables
- A system of decision making to speed up operations
Why you should care
- Improve productivity, competitiveness and results
- Introduce a consistent process to deal with change
- One version of truth, common language of business
- Increase velocity, flexibility and accountability
- Enhance visibility, predictability & control
