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Why Your Employees Aren't Committed to Your Company Strategy

Organizational Talent Consulting

To turn those dreams into workplace realities, leaders set strategies. Unfortunately, many organizations keep strategic plans a secret and don't involve leaders outside the executive leadership team. Evidence suggests only 5% of employees understand their company's strategy.

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Free Yourself and Business from Market Myopia

Organizational Talent Consulting

Studies show that 85% of executive leadership teams spend less than one hour a month discussing strategy, and up to 95% of employees are unaware of or do not understand their organization's strategy. Here are three leadership practices to free yourself and your organization from market myopia.

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4 Steps to Improving Your Strategic Thinking Passion and Proficiency

Organizational Talent Consulting

Several clients have been surprised to learn that I hated reading and writing at the beginning of my strategic leadership doctorate. Also, followers who are excluded from strategic planning lack buy-in to organizational strategies and quickly become confused about the company's direction and disengaged. But that can change.

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Health Systems Need to Completely Reassess How They Manage Costs

Harvard Business

hospitals and health systems experienced an average 39% reduction in their operating margins from 2015 to 2017. One large nonprofit system that has been struggling with its costs had a “president of strategy,” prima facie evidence of a serious culture problem! PM Images/Getty Images. A recent Navigant survey found that U.S.

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Why Financial Statements Don’t Work for Digital Companies

Harvard Business

The building blocks for a digital company are research and development, brands, organizational strategy, peer and supplier networks, customer and social relationships, computerized data and software, and human capital. Facebook’s gross margin of 76% on its 2017 revenues of $46.5 billion and $0.8