Are you strategy execution zen?

….or do you create complexity?

Most companies started off with a fairly straightforward, simple and pragmatic strategy execution process. But they somehow succeeded in complicating it over time. How did that happen?

Probably for one of the following reasons:

­    …a new manager implemented an approach that worked very well… in his former company.

­    …corporate launched a new model and wanted everyone to follow it.

­    …various consultants came (and went), each with their own tools and ideologies.

­    …someone got a kick out of complex theoretical models.

­    …someone wanted to create something completely new.

­    …someone decided that everything needed to be integrated.

­    And nobody eliminated outdated material.