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Every year, organizations increase effort—more meetings, more tools, more urgency—yet project execution continues to break down.

This episode examines what actually separates high-performing organizations in 2026 when it comes to project success. Not tactics. Not tools. Execution design.

We explore five practices that consistently show up in organizations that deliver strategy through execution:

• Clear objectives and disciplined scope boundaries
• Unified visibility across work, priorities, and capacity
• Intentional management of cross-team dependencies
• Governance that enables decisions instead of slowing them down
• Practical use of AI to support decisions without replacing leadership

Rather than treating these as standalone best practices, this episode explains why execution only works when these practices are supported by a system built to sustain them—especially under pressure.

If these challenges sound familiar, the next step isn’t another framework—it’s understanding where your execution system is breaking.

Take the Project Execution Diagnostic to identify friction points in your execution system and see where improvement will have the greatest impact:

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