Additional research in 2025 from The Strategy Brief reinforces the theme: 80 percent of teams are not aligned on what matters most, and 79 percent of organizations admit lacking effective strategy ...

The following excerpt is from Benjamin Gilad and Mark Chussil’s book The New Employee Manual: A No-Holds-Barred Look at Corporate Life. Buy it now from Amazon | Barnes & Noble | Apple Books | ...

As the pace and complexity of business accelerate, enterprise leaders are under pressure to deliver more, faster: more growth, innovation, and resilience. And yet, despite bold visions and thoughtful ...

The merits of strategy are not in form but in execution. Strategies remain incomplete until handed off and executed—often to people uninvolved in the planning process. These individuals are crucial ...

Bad ideas succeed every single day. And the strategies that fall short don’t usually fail because they’re poorly conceived. Most of the time, they simply don’t get executed. Plays stall, signals get ...

Even the experts in the industry struggle to define what a digital business consultant does. The results of several studies are unanimous: digital consulting has not yet coalesced into a distinct ...

The gap between strategic planning and real-world execution derails countless promising initiatives. While many focus on one side of that divide, effective leaders know that true impact comes from ...

Most companies are not short on data. They are short on decision-grade insight. Dashboards often describe what happened, but ...

The inspiration for my op-eds is simple, but urgent. For too long, we have taken for granted that people know what they may never have been taught. Many who step forward with good intentions have ...