The Gap Was Never the Strategy. It Was Structure. Highlight

Where do formal authority, control over assets, and access to information live? Are they integrated — or have they decoupled? Do the people with decision-making power also have the institutional knowledge and the resources to act? Or are your smartest people spending their days in alignment meetings, negotiating decisions that should take minutes, burning personal capital to bridge gaps in organizational design?

If it’s the latter, your problem is not strategy. You do not need another offsite, another alignment workshop, another visionary leader with a bold plan. You need to stop, look at the wiring, and fix the architecture of the organization.