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Differentiating workflows and work execution is crucial if we’re going to continue to improve knowledge sector productivity.
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You can only achieve aspirations and outcomes over time if you execute the right specific behaviors.
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…as any true leader knows, having the correct strategy is just part of the story. To be fully realized… the workforce at all levels needs to be mobilized in its execution.
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…in general management, a failure to deliver results is due to either a failure to plan adequately or a failure to execute properly.
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Unfortunately, ‘learning’ is the oldest excuse in the book for a failure of execution. It’s what managers fall back on when they fail to achieve the results we promised.
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37 |
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[Validated learning] is the principal antidote to the lethal problem of achieving failure: successfully executing a plan that leads nowhere.
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38 |
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There are only two possible explanations for [failure to deliver]: a failure of execution or a failure to plan appropriately.
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As a successful startup makes the transition to an established company, it will be well poised to develop the kind of culture if disciplined execution that characterizes the world’s best firms…
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An organization that focuses inwardly may execute superbly. But if it has not attuned to the larger world in which it operates, that execution may end up in the service of a failed strategy.
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Effective adaptation to emerging threats and opportunities requires the disciplined practice of empowered execution.
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