Bob Armour examines how leadership decisions influence employees’ daily experience and why clear, fair management matters.

Most leadership teams don’t struggle because they lack ambition. They struggle because execution gets quietly throttled by a few repeatable patterns. That matters, because the cost of poor execution is well documented. Harvard Business Review has cited estimates that 67% of well-formulated strategies fail due to poor execution . Understanding Execution Challenges Here are three patterns I see most often, plus what to do about each. 1) Decision Ownership is Unclear Execution