Strategy is defined not by everything a firm hopes to accomplish, but by what it intentionally chooses to support. We’ve all seen ambitious strategies stall – not for lack of vision, but for lack of ...

Boards say they want transformation. What they often hire is articulation. Across industries, a recurring governance pattern continues to surface: companies appoint C-suite leaders whose careers were ...

A newly hired CFO arrives with a clear mandate: accelerate performance and prepare the company for its next stage of growth. The leadership team quickly aligns around strategy. Priorities are ...

At first glance, modern organizations appear more aligned than ever. Strategies are documented clearly. Objectives are shared ...

When leaders choose alignment consistently, it pays off. At a senior leadership retreat I led recently, we asked the leadership team to do something deceptively simple: Look at their real work — ...

I’m not a runner, but I love to watch the relay. Faye McCray is the CEO and Principal Strategist of Culture & Quill, a strategic communications agency that helps organizations navigate change and ...

Paul,* the CEO of Maxreed, a global publishing company, was having trouble sleeping. Publishing is an industry that’s changing even faster than most other fast-changing industries, but Paul wasn’t ...

The gap between strategy and execution closes when leadership creates clarity, enforces ownership, and sustains momentum.

Many teams are impressed by the number of tools available today that claim to be able to improve their reliability. Sensors, ...