This week, I'm focused on the gap between strategy and execution. Many credit unions suffer from what I call "project obesity"—taking on too many initiatives, overloading their teams, and ultimately starving their core strategy of the focus it needs to survive.
If your team is constantly busy but your strategic needles aren't moving, it's time to rethink how your strategy actually lives in the organization.
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The Execution Gap: How to Cure Project Obesity and Make Strategy Live
For many credit unions, the strategic plan isn't a roadmap; it's a wish list. When leadership teams fail to prioritize, the organization inevitably suffers from "project obesity"—a state where every department is stretched thin across dozens of initiatives, critical projects stall, and the gap between strategy and execution becomes a chasm.
This execution gap isn't a failure of effort; it's a failure of focus. Strategy is just as much about what you choose not to do.
To cure project obesity, credit unions must move away from the habit of adding new priorities without ever removing old ones. It requires a fundamental shift in how leadership teams allocate their most finite resources: staff time and organizational attention.
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