Most plans do not fail. They are never deployed.
The board signs in December, the leadership team applauds, and by September the year is lost — not because the strategy was wrong but because it never reached the people who run the business on Monday, nobody’s name was on the number, and the monthly meeting was a recital.
Bill Canady has run strategy deployment as a CEO for over twenty years. This is the whole system at operating depth: the X-Matrix, the charter, catchball, the cascade, the bowler, the thresholds, the countermeasure, the sixty-minute review, the Prophet who runs it, what kills it in year two, and the Field Guide built to run it, sold separately.
Eleven chances a year. Spend them.
This audiobook is narrated using a digitally recreated version of Bill Canady’s voice.
Includes the 35-page visual companion PDF for figures and reference tables. The paid fillable Field Guide is sold separately.
Bill Canady is the CEO of Arrowhead Engineered Products and the Chairman of OTC Industrial Technologies. He has spent three decades running industrial and distribution businesses for private-equity owners, and he runs The 80/20 Institute, where operators learn the Profitable Growth Operating System he built doing it. He is the author of several bestselling books, including The 80/20 CEO and The Rule of Three, and the host of The 1000-Day CEO podcast. He served in the United States Navy. He and Debbie live in Sarasota, Florida.