February 4, 2005

MEETINGS. STARVE. EXECUTION.

🚀 Audacious Move™ of the Week

MEETINGS. STARVE. EXECUTION.

Strategy execution suffers when leaders spend more time discussing the plan than putting it to work.
Want business growth? Stop letting meetings eat the time your strategy needs to deliver results.
Spend 20% creating it—and 80% executing, learning and adjusting.

Most organizations have strategy backwards.

They spend months analyzing, debating, planning and polishing.

Then they wonder why nothing much changes.

Here’s the Audacious Move™:

Spend 20% of your time creating your strategy—and 80% executing it.

That’s where insanely amazing results come from.

🚀 Strategy Doesn’t Create Results. Execution Does.

Strategy matters.

You need to know where you’re going, who you intend to serve, what they crave and how you intend to compete and win.

But strategy by itself produces nothing.

Execution turns strategic intent into business results.

Get your Strategic Game Plan™ “just about right” and MOVE.

You can’t predict everything.

Markets change. Competitors surprise you.

Customers behave differently than expected.

That’s why execution is so important.

🔥 Execution Teaches You What Planning Never Can

Execution isn’t simply implementing your strategy.

It’s how you make your strategy better.

Execute.

Learn.

Adjust.

Execute again.

That’s BE Imperfect FAST™.

Every customer reaction tells you something.

Every competitive response tells you something.

Every failure tells you something.

Every unexpected success tells you something.

Execution teaches you what planning never can.

⚡ Stop Worshipping the Perfect Plan

The market doesn’t reward the organization with the most elegant 50-page strategy.

It rewards the organization that executes relentlessly, learns faster and adjusts sooner.

And execution isn’t something leaders can simply hand off.

They need to create a clear Line of Sight™ between strategy and execution so everyone understands how what they do contributes to the game plan.

Great leaders also make strategy execution a personal leadership priority.

Get your direction right.

Get your plan “just about right.”

Then GO.

🚀 The Audacious Move™

Stop polishing your strategy.

Put the 20/80 discipline to work.

20% Strategy. 80% Execution.

Execute. Learn. Adjust.

Then execute again.

The winning strategy isn’t the one you perfect before you execute.

It’s the one you perfect because you execute.

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Extraordinary businesses aren’t built by ordinary decisions.

They’re built one Audacious Move™ at a time.

Now go make yours.

Cheers,
Roy

• Posted 2.4.05 at 06:00 am by Roy Osing
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