... rights only Synthetic compassion Strategic leadership Compassionate leadership Generative AI Credibility Strategy execution Legitimacy AI governance Strategic leaders increasingly have to explain difficult decisions in language that acknowledges pain while still moving implementation...

..., spanning over thirty countries, regarding their firm’s strategy process. Findings The biggest gap highlighted by the Oxford Strategy Insights Project is effective strategy execution. An overwhelming majority of respondents indicated that their organization’s strategy execution efforts are ineffective...

...Timothy J. Galpin Purpose A seven-step Strategy Execution Model provides a tested guide to agile implementation. Design/methodology/approach Pragmatic actions, key deliverables and a case example for each of the seven steps in the model are presented. Findings Firms that focus more...

...Sayan Chatterjee; Venkat Narayanan; William Malek Purpose This article describes an approach to strategy execution using lessons learned from improvement efforts to the sales incentive compensation (SIC) business processes and IT systems in Cisco Systems. Design/methodology/approach This case...