How much strategic value are your execution gaps putting at risk?

Created by Fred Pernet · Strategy Execution Coach

Built on 15+ years advising senior leaders on turning strategy into measurable execution—including leadership coaching work with McKinsey and its client teams since 2014.

Are we more confident than the evidence justifies?

Which weaknesses could derail the strategy?

How much strategic value could be exposed?

Evaluate whether your internal execution metrics provide genuine line-of-sight visibility or simply reflect over-optimistic leadership assumptions across operational teams.

Pinpoint specific structural friction in prioritization, resource allocation, and accountability mechanisms before they compromise strategic milestones.

Calculate the potential revenue and operational margin at risk due to misalignment, delayed delivery, and fragmented execution priorities across business units.

Strategy failure is rarely one problem. It is a chain of hidden execution gaps.

67%

Strategy execution failure rate

28%

Leaders aligned on top priorities

50%

Projects meeting value definitions

67% — A Harvard Business Review article reports a 2016 estimate that 67% of well-formulated strategies failed because of poor execution.

28% — In an analysis of 124 organizations, only 28% of executives and middle managers could list three company priorities.

50% — Only 50% of projects met PMI’s value-based success definition in its 2025 global research with 5,800+ people.

Ready to test your own execution exposure?

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