Insights & perspectives
Insights
Ideas, work and perspectives from Grazing Minds for leaders making consequential choices.
The strategy-execution gap is an organizational problem
Most execution failures are not failures of will. They are failures of organizational design.
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Capability is becoming a competitive advantage
When every firm can buy the same technology, the differentiator is the capacity to use it.
Read the insightBoards are asking the wrong question about transformation risk
Most boards track spend and milestones. Few track whether the organization can carry the change.
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Your operating model is your strategy, whether you designed it or not
A strategy document describes intent. The operating model determines what actually happens.
Read the insightRedesign decision rights before you redesign the org chart
A new box on the org chart changes nothing if the same person still makes the same call.
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Sometimes the right advice is: do not start this transformation yet
Sequencing readiness before launch is unglamorous. It is also the difference between success and a second attempt.
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