The part of strategic planning almost everyone skips

Hey {{first_name|there}},

It’s the middle of summer, but end of year planning is coming up fast.

Every planning season runs the same way. Leadership locks itself in a room, comes out with a strategy, and hands it down through the org. Six months later, almost nobody below the VP level can tell you what the top three priorities are, or how their own work connects to them.

The plan doesn’t usually fail because it was wrong. It failed in the cascade.

In today's post, we break down the four places a strategic cascade usually breaks (translation instead of connection, ownership assigned after the fact, nobody owning the ongoing maintenance, and the plan losing out to a hundred other asks) and what to do instead if you're the one responsible for making it stick.

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