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Harvard Business Review: The Gap Between Strategy and Execution

Insight Center Collection

Report: This HBR Insight Center collection, sponsored by Brightline, cuts through the jargon and hand-waving and gives executives clear, actionable advice on how to close the gap between strategy and execution. A total of 24 relevant articles were compiled in this report.

Highlights:

• Page 02 – The stretch Goal Paradox – Sim B. Sitkin, C. Chet Miller, and Kelly E. See
• Page 38 – Good strategy execution requires balancing 4 tensions – Michael Connerty and Simon Horan
• Page 44 – Is execution where good strategies go to die? – Mark Bonchek
• Page 48 – Many strategies fail because they’re not actually strategies
• Page 68 – 3 Changes retailers need to make to survive – Deborah O’Neill and Nick Harrison
• Page 75 – How to excel at both strategy and execution – Joachim Rotering and Paul Leinwand
• Page 91 – How the most successful teams bridge the strategy-execution gap – Nathan Wiita and Orla Leonard
• Page 95 – Great corporate strategies thrive on the right amount of tension – Carsten Lund Pedersen and Thomas Ritter