The year isn’t won at the kickoff. It’s won in the four or five quiet weeks after it, when the plan stops being exciting and starts competing with everything else for time it was never actually given. If you’re an executive team, a COO, a...
Executive Summary Bain has found leadership teams shift, on average, only about 2% of budget to new priorities after a strategy reset, most of the plan stays theoretical. The planning to action gap isn’t a discipline problem, it’s a design problem: the...
