The Strategy Trap Newsletter
Kevin ErtellStrategy fails when execution is an afterthought. This newsletter helps leaders close the gap with practical tips, operator insight, and occasionally a little fun.
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Three ways to fix your next meeting
I’ve scheduled more pointless meetings than I’d like to admit.
This week’s Musing is my attempt to make up for a few of them, and the fix is pretty simple. It mostly comes down to a little thinking before you send the invite. Then, right a...
Finished every activity, still not done
Your team can finish every activity in the plan and still not get it done.
This week’s Musing looks at why plans so often end up as lists of activities, and a simple “fill in the blank” that fixes it. (Featuring one of my own cringeworthy...
Three hours on one bullet point
Three hours on one bullet point is a personal record I’m not proud of.
This week’s issue is about what’s going on when a team gets stuck arguing over words. Usually there’s a decision underneath that the team hasn’t made yet, or an assumpt...
Does Your Strategy Have a Norman Door Problem?
Why are hotel showers so hard to figure out?
Don Norman, whose brilliant ideas power this week’s featured musing, explains why experiences like that stick with us. “Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part b...
Fool’s Gold: The Success Measures That Don’t Measure Success
If your team hit every success measure in the plan, would you know whether the strategy actually worked?
In a lot of plans I’ve seen over the years, the answer is “not really.” A lot of success measures tell us the work got done, and that’...
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Straight talk on strategy, leadership, and execution. Retail exec turned speaker/advisor helping companies get unstuck. Ex-Nike. Now at Mistere Advisory.
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