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Strategy Vs Big, Hairy Goals

Strategy Vs Big, Hairy Goals

Most companies communicate strategy as a set of aspirations and platitudes. But aspirations aren’t strategy, and that mode of communication leaves employees in the dark. Strategy is a set of hard-to-reverse choices and explaining what these choices are and why they were made is what strategy communication should be.

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Disconnect With Strategy

Disconnect With Strategy

One recent academic study reported that even in high-performing companies with clearly articulated strategies, only 29% of their employees knew what their company’s strategy was.

In another 2019 survey, only ...

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Strategy Is Not Aspirations, Objectives or Wishful Thinking

Strategy Is Not Aspirations, Objectives or Wishful Thinking

Companies must first make the difficult choices that strategy requires and then communicate these choices to employees in an effective way.

Unfortunately, if we go by what companies communicate in their ...

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