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How to Increase Your Team’s Execution Speed
Speed is the ultimate weapon in business because ideas are worth nothing unless they are executed and used at the right time.
What do most managers do when their team fails to keep up with their commitments or cannot meet promised delivery timelines?
They look for external reasons or causes to assign blame and justify why things didn’t end up as expected.
We don’t have enough people.
Timelines were very aggressive.
Team xyz didn’t finish their work on time.
Attributing a team’s failure to things beyond control and refusing to take responsibility prevents these managers from understanding the fundamental hurdles that prevent their team’s execution and performance.
Old mindsets, practices, and ways of doing things continue disappointing stakeholders and others invested in results.
A good strategy requires an excellent team to execute, and managers who don’t pay attention to their team’s execution speed end up with mediocre performance and wasted potential. Elaborate plans are of no use if a team does not know how to use them.
“Execution has to be a part of a company’s…
