"Sixty-one percent of corporate strategists say poor strategy execution is the primary reason that new growth initiatives fail,” says M...

The strategy process defines where a business wants to go, and the people process defines who's going to get it there. The operating pla...

Know thyself - it's advice as old as the hills, and it's the core of authenticity. When you know yourself, you are comfortable with ...

An organization can execute only if the leader's heart and soul are immersed in the company. Leading is more than thinking big, or schmo...

Most important, the leader of the business and his or her leadership team are deeply engaged in all three [picking other leaders, setting th...

Businesses that execute... prosecute with rigor, intensity, and depth. Which people will do the job, and how will they be judged and held ac...

Most often today the difference between a company and its competitor is the ability to execute. If your competitors are executing better tha...

There are two diagnostic questions that business leaders and their executive teams should use to assess the nature, scale, and timing of the...

Change can involve magnitude, activity, or direction, and the first step toward a clearer vision for change is to clarify what form of chang...

Based on Prosci's change management research report with 650 participants, employees prefer two primary senders of change messages. Not ...

In any business environment, change happens. Let’s rephrase: In any business environment, change should happen. It shows you're committe...

Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. Sun Tzu " Strategy vs. T...

Given what I’ve revealed about short-termism at Honeywell, you might wonder if we had a formal strategic planning process in place. We certa...

Developing a compelling vision is a key activity of developing and setting strategy. A vision is a clear and powerful statement about what a...

A vision is a statement about what the leadership agrees a company could reasonably stretch to be in a generation--a 30-year aspiration... i...

"S trategy is a framework to guide critical choices to achieve a desired future,” said MIT Sloan senior lecturer Donald Sull in a new ...

Beware of optimism bias: the expectation that the best possible outcome will emerge. This accounts for why divorce rates in the western worl...

  Set the Stage 1. Create a Sense of Urgency Help others see the need for change and the importance of acting immediately. 2. Pull together ...

Our [HBR Leader’s Handbook] research [interviews with over 40 successful leaders of large corporations, startups, and non-profits] pointe...

Very Little. Tom Peters is a business and leadership legend widely known for his historical bestseller, In Search of Excellence , w...