Curated Resource ( ? )

Don’t Mistake Execution for Strategy

Don’t Mistake Execution for Strategy

my notes ( ? )

managers often confuse a strategy’s design with its execution. Recognizing the difference between these two will have a major and positive impact... Strategy design involves detailing positions to take on ... strategic factors... decision criteria used by key stakeholders... the position that, for instance, Ford or Toyota as a company takes to woo customers...

must take place at the organization level ...executive teams struggle with strategy design ... don’t adopt organization-level thinking at the start. They rush to execution ... the cart gets put before the horse...[because] the organization is “drowning in things to do”...

underpinning the essential difference between strategy design and execution is level of analysis... Strategy design operates at the organization level. Strategy execution operates at the individual level.

Read the Full Post

The above notes were curated from the full post hbr.org/2020/01/dont-mistake-execution-for-strategy?utm_source=feedburner.

Related reading

More Stuff I Like

More Stuff tagged management , strategy

See also: Communication Strategy , Digital Transformation , Change & Project Management , Communications Strategy , Business

Cookies disclaimer

MyHub.ai saves very few cookies onto your device: we need some to monitor site traffic using Google Analytics, while another protects you from a cross-site request forgeries. Nevertheless, you can disable the usage of cookies by changing the settings of your browser. By browsing our website without changing the browser settings, you grant us permission to store that information on your device. More details in our Privacy Policy.