Businesses spend a combined total of $47 billion annually on strategy consulting. Approximately 90 percent of strategic change initiatives fail to deliver theintended results.

Foreword ixAcknowledgments xiiiIntroduction 1Companies Spend Billions on Strategy 1Five Steps to Execution 41 Mobilize the Village 7Cisco Gets It 7The Shifting Problem 11The Village 13Getting the Village Moving 24Summary 352 Gather the Elders 37Whatever Happened at Nokia? 37The Elders 40The Gamification of Leadership 44Building Wise Elders 53Good Governance 64Summary 683 Power Up Feeling 71Aristotle and Euripides 71Thinking Gets in the Way 74Trust Your Instinct 75Brush Up Your EQ 81A New Skill Set for Execution 86Purpose and Passion 93Summary 1014 Energize People 103The Swanborough Tump 103Connecting for a Culture of Execution 108Getting Ownership 116Follow-Through 125Summary 1365 Build Endurance 139Strategy Has Become a Sprint 140Marathon Endurance 142Running the Strategy Execution Marathon 144Endurance Is a Formula 149Organizational Endurance 163Summary 1706 Five Steps to Strategy Execution 173Pulling It All Together 173Self-Assessment Guide 183Notes 187Index 201