The book
Execution Breakdown
Why does execution break in companies whose leadership team is genuinely capable?
In final edits with the publisher
The question
Execution rarely fails because people stopped trying.
It fails because the leader at the center built something the business has since outgrown, and nobody has gone looking for exactly where. The book applies four decades of operating and advising to that single question, and it answers it with a diagnostic you can run on your own company.
Three roots
Every failure traces back to one of three.
Shared Reality
The people running the business don’t share the same picture of what’s true. A dashboard reads 94 percent while the floor lives inside a different number entirely.
Do the people running the business see the same picture of what’s true?
Shared Standards
They share the facts but not the standards. “Done” means five different things to five different executives, and nobody has noticed because nobody has compared notes.
Does “done” mean the same thing in every room?
Shared System
The standards are aligned on paper, but a system nobody built on purpose is quietly deciding how work actually gets done once no one senior is watching.
What decides how work gets done when no one senior is watching?
Across fourteen distinct failure patterns, the same three roots keep appearing. The book’s work is telling you which one you are standing on.
How it is built
Each chapter stands alone.
Fourteen failure patterns, each written to be read on its own, so you can open the book to the pattern you recognize.
Each one ends with a Reset Question, built to be sat with, not answered on the spot.
The close
The ninety-day Execution Reset.
The book closes with a specific ninety-day protocol for closing the gap once you have found it. It is a structural fix for the one thing that is broken, not a culture initiative.
Before the book
Do not wait for the book to run the diagnostic.
The Shared Reality, Shared Standards, and Shared System diagnostic is the work I do with leadership teams now.
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