Strategy Podcast With Alex Nesbitt
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The Strategy Podcast with Alex Nesbitt focuses on business strategy, strategic planning, and strategy execution. The goal is to help you build a better strategy and achieve better results. Every week I discuss a different aspect of strategy: what strategy is, good strategy vs bad strategy, mistakes people make when developing strategy, and insights into some of the best research on strategy and strategy execution. You can find the podcast at StrategyPodcast.com.
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Leading With Purpose
Episode Script: [00:00:00] In my coaching work with executives, one of the things I’ve noticed is those that are leading with purpose are the happiest, most fulfilled, they’re the ones getting the most done, the most effective ones with their people, and often this leading with purpose, wears off...
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Strategy Execution Mistake #9: Not Playing To Win
The ninth strategy execution mistake that companies make is not playing to win. If you don't play to win, you have a very small chance of winning. Learn how to frame winning and make it part you your everyday work.
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Strategy Execution Mistake #8: Slow or No Tempo Decision Making Cycle
Episode Transcript: In this episode of the Strategy Podcast, I want to talk about the eighth mistake I see companies make that makes strategy execution really hard, and this is a mistakethat actually slows down the execution of a strategy. And it really relates tohaving a decision cycle that is…
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Strategy Execution Mistake #7: Spreading Your Talent Around
In this episode of the Strategy Podcast, I focus the seventh mistake I see companies make. And that is spreading their talent around, particularly their best talent around the organization. Unfortunately, that doesn’t work very well. What does work well is concentrating your best people on…
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Strategy Execution Mistake #6: Focusing on the Noise, Not the Signal
In this episode of The Strategy Podcast, I focus on the sixth mistake I see companies make as it relates to strategy execution. And this is a problem of focusing management on the noise and not on the signal. It's a widespread problem that consumes huge amounts of work that delivers little value…
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Strategy Execution Mistake #5: Ignoring Organizational Physics
In this episode of the strategy podcast, I talk about the fifth mistake I see companies make when it comes to executing strategy. The mistake here is ignoring organizational physics. Organizational physics determine how fast workflows through an organization in the most effective way. When you...
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Strategy Execution Mistake #4 – Building Functional Plans to Implement a Cross-Functional Strategy
In this episode of Strategy Podcast, I focus on the fourth strategy execution mistake - building a functional plan for a cross-functional strategy. This mistake is really jumping from the strategy to functional planning too quickly. There's actually an intermediate step in there, which is...
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Strategy Execution Mistake #3: Avoiding Conflict
In this episode of the strategy podcast, I focus on the third mistake companies make when it comes to strategy execution, and that is avoiding conflict. When management teams avoid conflict the rest of the organization pays the price. They are living the conflict every day, while the management...
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Strategy Execution Mistake #2: Over-Estimating Alignment
In this episode of strategy podcast, I focus on the second mistake I see companies make as it relates to strategy execution. The second one is overestimating alignment. You've done some strategy work, and now you're trying to move into execution. There's a tendency to overestimate the amount of...
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Strategy Execution: Mistake #1 – Faulty Strategy
This is part one of a nine-part series on mistakes that make strategy execution hard. In this episode, I talk about the first issue I see with respect to mistakes that companies make in executing strategy, and that is faulty strategy. Strategy should guide how you take the resources you have and...
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The Strategy Podcast with Alex Nesbitt focuses on business strategy, strategic planning, and strategy execution. The goal is to help you build a better strategy and achieve better results. Every week I discuss a different aspect of strategy: what strategy is, good strategy vs bad strategy, mistakes people make when developing strategy, and insights into some of the best research on strategy and strategy execution. You can find the podcast at StrategyPodcast.com.
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