closing the strategy to performance gap

Harvard Business Review
July 2005

Companies often fall short of their strategy’s potential, but a select few have managed to close the strategy-to-performance gap. Companies typically realize only about 60% of their strategies’ potential value because of defects and breakdowns in planning and execution.

By strictly following seven simple rules, you can get a lot more than that.

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