by David Barrett | Dec 5, 2018 | Blog, Strategy Execution
As I transition my career these days to the strategy execution space, I’m amazed at how often I’ve run into organizations of all shapes and sizes who don’t have a viable strategic plan. At first they will tell me that they have a plan but as we talk about it, they...
by David Barrett | Oct 31, 2018 | Blog, Leadership, Strategy Execution
The future of the organization was set. After many months of research, reflection and decision making, it was decided that the right path was to acquire our primary competitor. They were open to the idea, the market seemed ready for a larger and stronger player,...
by David Barrett | Oct 17, 2018 | Blog, Leadership, Strategy Execution
I was working with the leadership team of an organization recently and we were addressing the gap between strategic planning and strategy execution. I posed a series of questions to them to help me identify where their strengths and weaknesses lie in this area and one...
by David Barrett | Oct 10, 2018 | Blog, Leadership, Project Management, Strategy Execution
“Synergy is the creation of a whole that is greater than the simple sum of its parts.” It seems the term synergy comes from multiple roots that all lead to the words “working together”. When I work with leadership teams on strategy execution, we will try...
by David Barrett | Oct 3, 2018 | Blog, Leadership, Strategy Execution
We got a new dog last week! Don’t ask why. We actually swore we would never get another dog as we rolled into this new phase of our lives. But circumstances have brought us a very young, very cute puppy – a Poochon (Poodle/Bichon cross). If you have ever owned a...
by David Barrett | Sep 26, 2018 | Blog, Leadership, Strategy Execution
The idea looked sound The R&D that followed seemed strong The design phase was thorough and comprehensive The plan looked solid and it failed. It happens a lot. Some statistics suggest that as high as 60% of strategies fail in some way – and many don’t even get...
