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(originally published by Booz & Company)

How Leaders Mistake Execution for Strategy

Former Strategy& senior partner Ken Favaro explains to former s+b executive editor Paul Michelman that when leaders substitute visions, missions, purposes, plans, or goals for the real work of strategy, they send their firms adrift.

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