Failure Root Cause

Ego, timing, and execution are three major root causes of strategy failures that can be avoided.

Everyone plans to succeed.  Unfortunately, in many instances, our actual performance falls short of our expectations.  Meeting strategic goals is no exception.  The number of independent and uncontrollable variables makes strategic planning quite difficult.  However, most failures fall into three general categories that can be minimized or avoided altogether by careful, upfront planning.  The three categories are ego (point of view), timing, and execution.