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How Great Leaders Lead Strategic Transformation
Strategic transformation is the journey your organization will take to in its attempt to maintain or achieve a competitive advantage. Average leaders don't have a system for achieving results. On the contrary, Great leaders follow a system to ensure their team knows...
How to Best Execute Your Competitive Advantage While Maintaining Operations
Your strategy, or the one you will soon develop, is flush with your organization's competitive advantages. It creates excitement and inspires your leadership team with the strategic transformation that is seemingly within reach. However, in the back of your mind is...
New Role, New Strategy…See What Should Unfold Next
First, CONGRATULATIONS on your new role! There's no doubt you get things done. Now it's time to put your stamp on your new organization. It's time to state YOUR STRATEGY. If you operate like most DoD agencies, you'll want to tie directly to the National Defense...
Is it ON YOU to execute a successful strategy but without the PROPER TOOLS?
Most Strategies Fail If you've stopped to read this, there's good news - you're not alone. While that may not make you feel any better right now, there's plenty to be encouraged about. For decades, leaders have created strategies and have failed to give their teams...
How to Design Strategy Work So You’re Best Measuring Performance
Frustrated with Strategy As I often do, I like to lead with a point of frustration expressed in a recent conversation with a leader, "We're measuring a lot of things, and we're getting things done. I'm just not sure what we're doing is having the impact we need." I...
3 Signals Your Leaders Don’t Have the Right Tools to Implement Strategy
A Strategy Operating System "If we had a system, we could focus more on the problem than band-aiding what we've built….." These are the words of a leader within the United States Air Force (USAF) on the topic of strategy implementation. He went on to say, "If people...
What Leaders Need to Implement Strategy
I interview many government leaders about how they communicate strategic priorities and empower employees to engage in strategy. However, with large organizations like the Department of Defense (DoD), empowering teams to think strategically is challenging. Even great...
3 Simple Steps to Measure the Effectiveness of Strategy Implementation
Strategies Should Have Measurable Impact Recently in a conversation with a General in the United States Air Force, he shared, "We are doing well tracking our key results, we're just struggling to know if our strategies are having the impact we want." The General...
AETC HQ Award Five-Year MTI Deliberate Development Contract
Cypress Resources Awarded MTI Deliberate Development Contract from HQ Air Education Training Command (AETC) - JBSA LACKLAND, TX December 14, 2021 - Source: Cypress Resources, Inc. - BIRMINGHAM, AL Cypress Resources, Inc. (Cypress) is proud to announce that it has been...
Five Tips to Achieve Better Execution from Your Organizational Strategy
Studies show strategy struggles to achieve desired results 60 - 95% of the time. For this reason, adopting an implementation framework to ensure organizational strategy achieves the desired results is critical. Organizations that adopt a strategy implementation...
How to best turn your strategic gaps into mission-driven priorities
How to best turn your strategic gaps into mission-driven priorities You've had an assessment to determine your strategic implementation gaps. And while you were aware of some of the gaps, others caught you a little off guard. Now you have a new problem - You're not...
Why getting implementation right matters most in a world of constant change
Why getting implementation right matters most in a world of constant change Whether it's strategy or innovation, architecting the right implementation plan matters most. But if that's the case, why do so many organizations operate under a shoot first, aim second...