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Hult Ashridge faculty,\u00a0Alison Reynolds<\/a>, along with David Lewis asked 80 senior executives from 20 countries where they focus their attention during\u00a0strategic execution, the leaders\u00a0overwhelmingly pointed to tangible things\u00a0such as organizational structures\u00a0and processes. But they also told the researchers that their\u00a0biggest barriers to great execution were intangible things\u00a0such as employee interaction and mindsets. Why do leaders knowingly focus on the wrong things? Because even though leaders know the\u00a0\u201dintangibles\u201d\u00a0are what really matter to great strategy execution, addressing them is really hard.\u00a0It takes genuine engagement and two-way interaction. It means admitting\u00a0you don\u2019t have all the answers. It takes giving up a certain amount of control.\u00a0But there is more value to be found in exploring an open question than in imposing an answer that cannot be seriously challenged. Leaders who learn to\u00a0escape the tyranny of the tangible will find that their strategy-execution gap gets a lot smaller.<\/p>\n

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