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The Pace of Breakthrough Execution - XPS

Organizations spend more than $30 billion dollars annually on strategy creation, and more than 80% of those strategies fail. How can an organization with talented people and a superb strategy fail so often?

The companies that outperform their competitors by 10x maintain a pace of execution performance that allows them to deliver consistent results and break through barriers. The leaders of these organizations consistently get results through focusing on, managing to, and maintaining one number. This number is the Execution Performance Score (XPS).

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