Business Strategy Barriers

"Getting" business strategy is the indisputable starting point for any meaningful contribution to strategic processes. The company's strategies should form the basis for talent strategies - and more often than ever, talent is itself a pivotal competitive differentiator in business strategies. But, for a number of reasons, pinning down business strategies may be no easy matter. Some of the common hurdles include: Business leaders may not articulate their strategies well. Companies whose leaders capture the unique, compelling message of their company's strategies and are skilled, consistent, and unwavering in communicating this message through structures, processes, and actions as well as words, clearly improve chances that their strategies will work.