Perspectives
The gap between strategy and execution isn’t theoretical — it’s lived. This collection of articles offers grounded insights, practical tools, and real stories from the front lines of organizational change. For leaders who want to move from good ideas to lasting impact.
Alex Sydnor, FACHE, is President and CEO of Shift Group Consulting, a strategy and facilitation firm that helps executive teams close the gap between planning and execution. A former Chief Strategy Officer and marketing leader with more than 30 years of experience in leading growth, transformation, and alignment in complex organizations. He guides CEOs and senior teams to turn insight into execution by integrating human understanding with disciplined management systems to achieve measurable results.
Blog Post by Alex Sydnor
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You're Not As Aligned As You Think
The Challenge of False Consensus I’ve walked out of multiple executive planning sessions ...
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Stop Rushing To The Solution
Many Strategic Failures Begin Long Before Implementation
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What Happens When We Flatten the Organization?
The Layer Under Pressure Gallup’s most recent workplace research contains a statistic ...
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Small Moves, Big Impact
What looks like minor design choices often determines strategic success.
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Stop Trying to Get Buy-In
If you’re Trying to Get Buy-in, You’re Already Too Late Do this Instead. When leaders ...
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Strategy Models are Useful, But Have Hidden Traps
Strategy Models Are Indispensable Models are essential to help teams organize and ...
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Start Where You Want to Finish
Designing Strategy From the Future In Strategic planning often begins with today — with ...
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Strategy Execution Only Works If People Change
A Case for Human-Inspired Strategy When strategies fail, it is often not because the ...
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Insights Reduce Waste
The ROI of Human Understanding Executives rarely set out to waste resources. Yet in ...
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Execution Doesn’t Equal Alignment
The Myth of Alignment Executives often take comfort in the idea that strategy execution ...
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