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![]() Sarvajeet Chandra - ArticlesSarvajeet lives in Mumbai, India. He runs a strategy execution firm called Master Sun Consulting. Please visit at http://www.mastersungroup.com
He loves travel, para gliding , history & art and other mindless pursuits of an inquisitive mind. Management Control System - 21 Times of Dragging a Horse to the WaterSounds like a fairly impressive word...all aspects of it. The power in the word 'Control', the sure footed-ness of 'System' and the seriousness of 'Management'. Yet like all abiding management mantras it translates to something simple: forecast, plan, control & report. Execution is a Dirty Word - How Apartheid or Caste System Survives in the Pecking OrderExecution is a dirty word. Almost like as if it belongs to the lower caste or menial slaves of management. The Islamic Brotherhood of Egypt - Lessons in Transformation, Scalability & Reinvention to Al-qaidaFirst it was the British, the Suez Canal & Egyptian Nationalism. Then it was a creation of Israel carved from Palestinian homeland. This was followed by the humiliating peace treaty between Egypt & Israel. What They Don't Teach You at Harvard or Iim - MBA Model of Producing Arm Chair ThinkersManagement students are trained to strategize, not execute. They are trained to understand complex management models, but never taught the basics of execution. One Track, One Train - Employee Alignment to Strategy, Vision & MissionThe speed of engine, they say, is the speed of the train. Imagine, if the train was running not on one track but a number of tracks. What if the number of tracks was equal to the number of employees in a company? Flawed Strategic Planning : the License to Kill a Bad StrategyOften during the process of strategy execution, the implementers start getting early feedback that the strategy is way off the mark. This feedback comes from the front lines: from employees, customers, suppliers, associates. Given a bad strategy, a great execution will only speed up a business failure. The Bottleneck at the Top of the Bottle - Often the Ceo, Very Often a Revered Top ManagerIt is interesting that any strategy execution or a transformation process encounters its most severe hurdle at the very top. As Gary Hamel said in HBR, "Where are you likely to find people with the least diversity of experience, the largest investment in the past, and the greatest reverence for industry dogma?" Closing the Loop Between Strategy & Execution - Lessons From the Indian Retail StoryStrategy is a strange word. It is treated like a gospel. Once it is put on paper, it needs to be revered, etched in stone.
And yet a strategy gone wrong, can de detected before its too late if lessons are learnt from execution. Simple Message Drive Great Strategy Execution - Example of India's Lone Boxing MedalA simple message, communicated across the ranks; from the streets of Bhiwani, to the boxing rings of Mumbai. This simple message is the single most important reason for Indian boxers coming to fore in the Beijing Olympics. The Licence to to Kill a Bad StrategyA bad strategy causes tremendous damage to an organization's future. Yet strategy implementers are never given a license to kill a bad strategy when they see it
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