Afterburner Webinars | Now It's Time to Execute

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Now It’s Time to Execute!

Joel “Thor” Neeb@JoelThorNeeb#FlawlessExecution

Companies achieve only 33% of expected results from their strategic plans.The Gap between expectation and performance is a failure of companies to execute strategy.

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• President of Afterburner• USAF F-15 Mission Commander• U.S. Presidential Escort Missions• Air Force Academy Graduate• M.S. Aerospace Science / MBA from UT• Instructor Pilot of the Year at USAF Training

HQ• Embedded with Silicon Valley Tech Company

in 2015

Joel “Thor” NeebAtlanta, GA

Review: 5 Ways to Strengthen Your Strategic Planning Muscles

Stay Strategic

Focus the Dialogue

Identify CLPs

Start with the End in Mind

Simplicity Beats Complexity

01

Communicate the Destination

02

Plan the First Missions

04 Adapt and Iterate

03 Begin Execution

05 Deal with Task Saturation

Now It’s Time to Execute

• The North Star guiding everyone in the company

1 Communicate the Destination

• Remember the “7 times factor”• Brief the Destination in a team-

wide all hands• Post in a common area to promote

alignment and prioritization• Cycle on digital billboards

1 Communicate the Destination

“PLANS ARE NOTHING; PLANNING IS EVERYTHING.”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

02 Plan the first Missions• Turn the “inspired alignment” into

“disciplined execution”• Now it’s time to back into the

Missions• These are your Tactical Plans

• Connect strategy with execution

CONFIDENTIAL

Strategic Campaigns

HD DestinationVPs, Champions & BU Owners

Senior Directors, Directors & ICs

C-Suite and SVPs

Tactical Missions

THE FLAWLESS EXECUTION MODEL®

03 Begin Execution• Brief the plans to the teams

03 Begin Execution• Conduct X-Gaps

• Mission: Weekly• Campaigns: Monthly• HDD: Quarterly

4 Adapt and Iterate • Organizational

Imperative• Core Principles• X-Gaps, Debriefs,

Iterate• Mission• Campaign• HDD

If you want to go fast, go alone.

If you want to go far, go together.

05 Deal with Task Saturation• Assess every activity through your

HDD• “Why are we doing this?”• “What element of our HDD does it

support?”• Task shed the rest

01

Communicate the Destination

02

Plan the First Missions

04 Adapt and Iterate

03 Begin Execution

05 Deal with Task Saturation

Now It’s Time to Execute

Please ask any question you have in the Q&A box at this time

Lets Connect!Joel “Thor” Neeb

@AfterburnerInc#FlawlessExecution

thor@afterburner.comAfterburner.com

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