Most leadership teams don’t lack ambition. They lack a shared picture of where they’re headed. Ask five people on the same executive team to name the company’s top three priorities this quarter. In many companies, you’ll get five different answers. Not because anyone is careless. It’s because the strategy lives in the CEO’s head, or in a forty-slide deck nobody opens after the…
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Every January, a familiar ritual plays out in boardrooms. Leadership teams spend two or three days at an offsite. They debate the market. They argue about priorities. They leave with a clean slide deck and a shared sense of direction. Then February happens. Inboxes fill up. Customer fires need putting out. The annual plan quietly slides into a shared…