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Strategy Execution

Keep on Rolling

June 2, 2009

You start your new company, full of energy and momentum. Your team is aligned under the banner of simple yet powerful values. You company is agile, takes risks, innovates and solves problems as they arrive. Then you grow the next notch, implement a budget and planning process, and wait, do I hear those entrepreneurial wheels [...]

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I'd Fly Costco

May 27, 2009

My first real job experience that didn’t involve fast food was as an intern at The Boeing Company. It was the boondoggle of internships, with salmon bakes and dinners with the top brass for me and my cohorts. I was working on failure mode analysis on the new airplane design. Even though I was doing [...]

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A Better Place for Newspapers

May 19, 2009

Sometimes the problem with strategy execution is well, strategy. Case in point is the current hand-wringing about the demise of journalism or at least the demise of newspapers. Frank Rich’s headline in the May 10th Sunday NY Times was “The American Press on Suicide Watch”. Maureen Dowd in her column on the opposite page took [...]

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Strategy Execution, startups, and the Elephant

April 19, 2009

With a nod to Tom Davenport, I’d like to welcome you to Competing on Execution. Strategy Execution: Avoid the Extremes, a post by Tom from a few years ago, is a good place to start the discussion. Tom contrasts two extremes of strategy execution. “Strategic Engineering” is the traditional school, where workers are cogs in [...]

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