67% of strategic initiatives fail..
Not because of bad ideas, but bad execution:

Most companies excel at building decks.
Few excel at implementation that actually moves the needle.

Here’s what the research shows about why execution breaks down:

🔸 Ruthless focus > endless priorities
➙ Teams with 3–5 priorities achieve all.
➙ Teams with 10+ priorities achieve none.
➙ Every “extra” priority cuts success rates by 15%.

🔸 Clarity > complexity
➙ Only 28% of managers can name 3 top strategic goals.
➙ If your employees can’t explain the strategy in one sentence, you don’t have one.

🔸 Evidence > intuition
➙ Data-driven decisions = 23% higher profitability.
➙ Yet 67% of executives still lead with gut feel.

🔸 Specificity > ambiguity
➙ Clear, challenging goals = higher performance.
➙ Role ambiguity = lower performance.

The harsh truth: many leaders are asked to execute someone else’s vague strategy with unclear metrics and too few resources.

But here’s the opportunity:
If you bring clarity, focus, and evidence-based thinking to the table you become the strategic leader people listen to.

Start by asking questions others avoid:
– Which few initiatives are we saying yes to and what are we saying no to?
– How is each person’s role and goal defined?
– What data will we use to decide and to learn?

Strategic leaders don’t just admire the problem.

They reframe it and drive execution that sticks.