Five ways your strategy might fail… and the practical steps you can take to ensure they don’t happen

My latest LinkedIn article describes five of the biggest and most critical risks your strategy can face:

1. Your strategy isn’t measurable* – making its impact unknown and its progress invisible;
2. Your strategy is mis-aligned – your front-line teams are pulling in multiple different directions;
3. Your strategy over-reaches – it tries to be all things to all people and ends up lacking focus and specificity;
4. Your strategy isn’t delegated – your middle managers aren’t engaged enough to drive through the necessary change;
5. Your strategy is impotent – it doesn’t drive enough people to take enough action to make a difference.

Read the full article on ‘Five ways your strategy might fail …‘, or see my previous LinkedIn articles on:

• The measurement of strategy – giving strategy superpowers!
• Turning Strategy into a Manageable Process with Strategy Mapping
• Four Benefits of Strategy Mapping
• Six Secrets of Strategy Mapping

*Our next (free) webinar at 12.00pm on 02 April 2020 focusses on making your strategy measurable. Entitled ‘Why strategies fail: Are you confusing targets with KPIs?’, we will explore a practical step-by-step process for devising, validating and governing strategic KPIs.