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In a world of stiffening competition, business strategy is more crucial than ever. Yet most organizations struggle in this area - not with formulating strategy, but with executing it, or putting their strategy into action. Owing to execution failures, companies realize just a fraction of the financial performance promised in their strategic plans. It doesn't have to be that way. Building on their breakthrough works on strategy-focused organizations, the authors describe a multistage system that enables you to gain measurable benefits from your carefully formulated business strategy.

More than 20 years ago, Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton introduced the balanced scorecard, a revolutionary performance measurement system that allowed organizations to quantify intangible assets such as people, information, and customer relationships. Then, in The Strategy-Focused Organization, Kaplan and Norton showed how organizations achieved breakthrough performance with a management system that put the balanced scorecard into action.

I was excessively overweight and did not admit it. I acknowledged that I was a little fat. I claimed that I was fat-but-fit. I could exercise. Then, I admitted that I was fat-and-unfit. Still, I denied reality. I did not count calories, weigh myself, understand muscle loss, or appreciate exercise. I lived in denial. I was dying in denial. Eventually, I had a series of insights wrestling the daddy demon I call Denial. I am no longer denying denial. I found my healthy, aspirational self.

I was excessively overweight and did not admit it. I acknowledged that I was a little fat. I claimed that I was fat-but-fit. I could exercise. Then, as I fell through the rabbit Google-hole, I admitted that I was fat-and-unfit. Still, I denied reality. I did not count calories. I did not weigh myself. I did not understand muscle loss. I did not recognize poor sleep. I did not value hydration. I did not practice good breathing. I did not appreciate exercise. I did not present myself well. I compromised my relationships. I lived in denial. I was dying in denial. I wrestled the daddy demon I call...

When faceless assassins stalk the seaside streets, the only vacation is permanent. Max Harding wanted nothing more than to leave his wife, but when his mistress is found gruesomely murdered on the beach, he becomes the prime suspect. But in this quiet seaside town, appearances are deceiving, and secrets not only run deep—they're terrifying. The faceless killers have been set loose and Max soon finds himself fighting for humanity against an enemy he knows only too well.