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Building Your Bench Strength
How CEOs and C-suite teams can hit it out of the park with talent How are those 2022 Resolutions going? Did you promise yourself you’d...


Why You Must Incorporate Upskilling Further Down the Organizational Chart
57% of U.S. workers want to update their skills but mid-career employees are less likely to benefit from professional development...


How to Beat the Great Resignation and Retain Talent
Where do you see yourself in five years? It’s an old saw of an interview question but it has, over time, served a purpose. Executives are...


The ‘Execution Gap’ CEOs Must Fill
Where strategy implementation breaks down and what senior executives can do about it. Where strategy implementation breaks down and what...


Will Your Essential Leaders Advance Within Your Organization or Elsewhere?
The employees most likely to leave? They’re probably the ones you most need to stay. Here’s what you can do to keep and inspire them....


Is True North South of the Equator?
What happens when True North is defined, but not communicated? Execution will suffer as employees perform their jobs based on different...


Is your Leadership Enabling Execution?
Execution excellence starts at the top. It is the leadership team’s responsibility to set the foundation of execution by formulating a...


How Relevant Are Your Metrics?
A set of well-chosen metrics allows employees to understand exactly how their activities are going to be tracked and how their output...


Are Your Employees Focused On What Matters?
Execution is the sum of all the activities and tasks performed by your employees. This is where the rubber hits the road. These...


Human Capital: Once You Get ‘Em, How Do You Keep Them?
You execute with people and through people. Employees are your most precious asset, but they are also the one asset over which you have...


How Best Practices Make You Worse Off
Market discipline starts at the top: the leadership team must define the mission (why do customers buy from us versus the competition),...


What Leader Do You Want to Be in 2021?
After nearly a year of operating in a crisis environment, we know what the attributes of good crisis leadership are: resilience to absorb...


The Many Benefits of a Clear Strategy
Despite the amount of change companies have been subject to, and perhaps because of it, Line-of-SightSM data show that our clients have...


When It comes to Metrics, Less is More
You can only control what you can measure. Ford Motor Company is a great example: when the company decided to make their strategic goal,...


A Simple Idea to Keep Employees Focused on What Matters
This week we discuss a simple approach to align activities and structure to your business strategy in the post-pandemic. We recently...


Preparing Human Capital for Superlearning
This week, we consider how you can keep your employees’ competencies up to date despite the shifts in the work they’ve been asked to...


Uncertainty Is Not An Excuse
There is no other way to say this: for many companies, execution will be at risk in 2021. We recently became a Line-of-Sight SM Certified...


The High Growth Curse
In the first quarter of 2021, Line-of-Sight conducted research to measure how CEOs evaluate their organizations’ execution performance....


Human Capital: Preparing for the Turnover Tsunami
Surveys show that between 25% and 50% of employees plan to look for a job this year and will do so as soon as the effects of the pandemic...


The Paradox of Size
CEOs of mid-sized companies rate their execution capabilities highest among their peers. Line-of-SightSM helps mid-market companies and...
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