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Dakhalfani Boyd is an executive leader, author, and speaker on strategy execution. A retired U.S. Army Command Sergeant Major and senior federal leader in human capital and technology modernization, he wrote The Execution Gap: Why Organizations Fail Between Strategy and Outcomes.
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Dakhalfani Boyd is an executive leader, author, and speaker who helps organizations close the distance between strategy and outcomes. He has spent more than twenty-five years leading people and organizations through complexity, from the U.S. Army, where he retired as a Command Sergeant Major, to senior federal leadership in human capital and technology modernization. He is a Harvard Kennedy School Senior Executive Fellow and completed Cornell University's executive leadership program. He is the author of The Execution Gap: Why Organizations Fail Between Strategy and Outcomes. His views are his own and do not represent any employer or the U.S. Government.
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Dakhalfani Boyd is an executive leader, author, and speaker who helps organizations close the distance between strategy and outcomes. He has spent more than twenty-five years leading people and organizations through complexity, from the U.S. Army, where he retired as a Command Sergeant Major, to senior federal leadership in human capital and technology modernization. He is a Harvard Kennedy School Senior Executive Fellow and completed Cornell University's executive leadership program. He is the author of The Execution Gap: Why Organizations Fail Between Strategy and Outcomes. Dakhalfani's work centers on one question: once a decision is made, what actually has to happen for it to become real. In the Army, that meant making sure strategy survived contact with the people who had to carry it out. In federal service, it meant leading enterprise change where governance, sponsorship, and adoption decide the result. He speaks to executive audiences, boards, and leadership programs on decision rights, sponsorship, and the day after go-live. His views are his own and do not represent any employer or the U.S. Government.
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The book
The Execution Gap
Why Organizations Fail Between Strategy and Outcomes
By Dakhalfani Boyd. Available now in hardcover, paperback, and ebook. The book names the distance between strategic intent and organizational outcomes and lays out what leaders must change when execution begins to break down.
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