Seven Questions to Tackle Your Execution Problems

Before you read another word about execution, try this.

Ask every member of your leadership team—separately, before they can compare notes—what the one result that matters most to your business right now is. Write down what you think they'll say. Then collect the answers.

If you've never done this exercise before, the results will be uncomfortable. In most organizations, according to Chris McChesney and Scott Thele—who have worked with more than 4,500 leadership teams as co-creators of the 4 Disciplines of Execution—the answers don’t match. Not to yours. Not to each others'. Not even close. And that misalignment, more than any tariff shock or market disruption or AI anxiety, is what’s actually killing execution.

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