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November 22, 2017 Smart Leaders Focus on Execution First and Strategy Second By Rosabeth Moss Kanter Four things to focus on.

Many Strategies Fail Because They're Not Actually Strategies by Freek Vermeulen They're goals. How to Excel at Both Strategy and Execution by Paul Leinwand, Joachim Rotering Only 8% of leaders do it. Executives Fail to Execute Strategy Because They're Too Internally Focused by Ron Carucci And because they're naive about the trade-offs. Closing the Strategy-Execution Gap Means Focusing on What Employees Think, Not What They Do by Alison Reynolds, David Lewis Escape the tyranny of the tangible.

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