So many leaders with incredible visions and strategic ideas have the same complaint: “our teams just aren’t making it happen.” In fact, one study of 400 global CEOs found that “between two-thirds to three-quarters of large organizations struggle with execution” while according to Gartner, “70% of chief strategists express little confidence in their ability” to close the strategy execution gap.
Despite these figures, the strategy execution gap isn’t inevitable: there’s an explanation for why it occurs, and what savvy leaders can do to mitigate it.