Is Your Strategic Plan Doomed to Fail?

Many CEOs spend months crafting beautifully designed strategic plans.

They walk into board meetings with a 50-page roadmap to success.

But reality doesn't care about your fancy SWOT analysis.

Markets shift.
Priorities change.
Execution stalls.

And that “brilliant” strategy?

It ends up buried in a shared drive, forgotten.

A flawlessly executed strategy scribbled on a napkin will always beat a beautifully crafted plan that never sees action.

Speaking of execution. Is AI part of your strategic plan in 2025?

If your answer is, “we’re exploring our options” then you’ll be the last player to enter the game.

If you’re ready to bring AI into your business, join us for a monthly call with our AI expert.

First call:

March 19th, 2025
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“Plans are worthless but planning is everything.”

Dwight Eisenhower

The Problem? Overplanning, Under Executing.

• Your strategy is too rigid. No plan survives first contact with reality. If you’re married to a static document, failure isn’t far behind.

• You’re focused on tactics, not principles. The best CEOs set clear priorities instead of drowning in obsessive details.

• Your team doesn’t know what actually matters. A strategy that isn’t actionable is just corporate theater.

Build an Execution-Driven Strategy

1. Define your Top ONE/Top Three. Your team doesn’t need ten priorities. They need three. Pick the high-impact, company-defining objectives and make them unmissable.
(After running 9 companies, I wrote down the exact process I used to actually get things done as a CEO. Get it here for free).

2. Operate on Adaptive Planning, Not Annual Planning. Annual strategy documents are dead on arrival. Review and adjust key priorities every 90 days. Great companies move fast. Your strategy should, too.

3. Make Execution Part of the Culture. If your strategy isn’t embedded in daily decisions, it’s useless. Tie every leadership meeting, incentive, and key hire back to your Top ONE/Top Three.

Tone Down The Complexity

Your job isn’t to create a perfect plan.

It’s to create a company that moves fast, adapts, and executes relentlessly.

Is your strategy built for execution, or is it another Fortune 500 strategy collecting dust?

When you’re ready to discover your genius, here’s how I can help you:

1. AI Readiness Houston. Join us April 2nd, 2025 in Houston, TX to answer the question - ARE YOU READY TO LEAD IN THE AGE OF AI?

2. 1:1 CEO Coaching. Schedule a no obligation first session to find your superpower, connect with your highest ROI activities, and succeed with less effort and stress.

3. 3:1 CEO Coaching. Embark on a transformative journey toward realizing your limitless capabilities, partnering with two other CEOs. Learn and grow together.

Go forth and scale,

— John Hittler