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Execution IS the Strategy
The book in one sentence
In fast-moving markets, the advantage goes not to the organisation with the best plan but to the one that turns plans into results quickly and keeps adjusting as it goes.
Who it's for
Managers and team leaders who are handed strategy from above and must make it happen, and owner-managers whose good ideas keep stalling between the planning meeting and the marketplace.
The big idea
Long, detailed strategic plans are increasingly out of date by the time they’re finished. Stack, a productivity specialist who has spent many years working with large organisations, argues that what separates winners from the rest is execution: the speed and discipline with which a team acts on its priorities. Strategy and execution can’t be split into separate phases any more. You plan while you act, and you act while you plan. Her answer is a framework she calls LEAD, built on four conditions that let teams execute well.
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