When Strategy and Execution Fall Out of Sync

How to move forward with alignment and purpose. SummaryMisalignment between strategy and execution is common, especially at inflection points when organizations pivot, scale, or rebuild. The symptoms are familiar: rising attrition, declining revenue, missed goals, and a growing disconnect between the people setting direction and the people delivering it. Strategists demand answers while executors push backContinueContinue reading “When Strategy and Execution Fall Out of Sync”

Am I Not Cut Out for Managing People?

I’ve made one bad hire after another. A reader asks: I’m a newish manager, and I have one direct report. My new employee, “Susan,” quit this week. Her old employer had reached out to her and made her a dream offer. I spent five months training Susan. She had learned a lot and was startingContinueContinue reading “Am I Not Cut Out for Managing People?”

Keep Forgetting Things? To Improve Your Memory and Recall Science Says Start Taking Notes (By Hand)

And then do a quick review the next morning. In a study published in Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, researchers evaluated the effectiveness of a variety of memory-boosting strategies: taking photos, typing notes, and writing notes by hand. As you can probably guess, people who wrote notes by hand scored the highest on subsequent recall and comprehension tests, even whenContinueContinue reading “Keep Forgetting Things? To Improve Your Memory and Recall Science Says Start Taking Notes (By Hand)”

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