In response to today’s increasingly volatile and complex business environment, organizations must seek a new approach to strategy execution. Situated firmly between a company’s strategic vision and its tactical execution are project leaders who keep the engine running. To translate their strategy into measurable results, organizations must prepare their leaders to rise to the challenge […]
Adaptive Leaders: The Levers Who Make a Difference
If projects are the lifeline of strategy, then adaptive leaders are the lifeline of projects. Leading project-based work today requires skills beyond managing tasks and timelines. Developing leaders’ skills is the best way for an organization to ensure higher levels of engagement and project success. The changing landscape of business has made all industries, from […]
New Video: A Project Captain Trained to Handle the Unexpected
Are you the Adaptive Captain of your projects? At Strategy Execution, we believe that all work gets done through projects, but in today’s complex business environment, those projects don’t always go according to plan. In our new animated video, we use a pilot and a plane to illustrate the uncertainty that project leaders often face […]
Webinar: Adaptive Strategic Execution for a Complex World – Register Now!
The constant change and uncertainty of today’s complex business world requires project leaders to expand and adapt their mindset and capabilities to match the complexity of an increasingly unpredictable environment. In collaboration with our new partner, Duke Corporate Education, we are hosting a webinar to discuss how the techniques and skills that have traditionally worked […]
Five Barriers to Successful Strategy Execution and How to Overcome Them
Most high-performing companies today understand the value of establishing a business strategy to drive how they do their work. But how successful are they at translating their strategies into effective and tangible results? It turns out that while a large majority of executives agree on the importance of strategy, only a small percentage are rated […]
Webinar Recap: Navigating Ambiguity in a Complex Environment
On April 18, Tim Wasserman, TwentyEighty Strategy Execution’s Chief Learning Officer, presented a webinar on Navigating Ambiguity in a Complex Environment. During the event, he explained the concept of “multiplier” skills, which create tolerance for ambiguity and help project leaders and their teams manage change and navigate unpredictable waters that inevitably arise throughout the life […]
6 Things Project Leaders Need to Know to Overcome Communication Breakdowns
Whether personally or professionally, we’ve all been witness to communication breakdowns. From playing “telephone” at a party, to trying to decipher the tone of a text message from a friend or an email from your boss, how and what we choose to communicate can be the difference maker in any given situation. In a business […]
Webinar: Navigating Ambiguity in a Complex Environment – Register Now!
In today’s business world, ambiguity is a way of life, especially for those tasked with leading project-based work teams. Project leaders must be nimble and react quickly to keep projects on track. This requires a shift in perspective and behavior, as leaders need to expand their focus beyond traditional planning and management skills to include […]
Three Keys to Establishing a Design-Thinking Culture Across Your Organization
The concept of design thinking, once firmly fixed in the product development space, is making its move into other business units across organizations. In an effort to drive innovation in a fast-paced and quickly changing environment, design thinking is moving to the forefront of companies focused on new ideas to shape the future and drive […]
The Evolution of Project Management: Are You Ready for the Changes?
Project management is going through a transformation. Once a predominantly IT-focused discipline, it has broadened in scope as people and organizations across a wide range of industries recognize that most of their work gets accomplished through projects. As today’s business environment evolves to cut across geographic borders and organizational hierarchies, the need for project leadership […]