Robust Strategic Planning  to Disciplined Strategy Implementation 

No Uppercut, No Hook : Simple Messages drive Strategy Execution

Bottleneck or Champion: CEO's role in Strategy Implementation

Leadership Role in Driving Strategy and Execution

Navigator, Advisor, Process Owner, Monitor, Evaluator : The Role of Chief Strategy Officer

Execution is a Dirty Word - How Apartheid Or Caste System Survives in the Pecking Order
Execution is a dirty word. Almost like as if it belongs to the lower caste or menial slaves of management. It is the top leadership's job to drive it and not delegate & brush your hands off

A Blueprint for Strategic Leadership : How to build an organization in which executives flourish

The CEO's role in leading transformation

Winning with Leadership :How to get employees on board & develop them

Comparing Transformation Leadership in Successful & Unsuccessful Companies

Leader's Must Devote 10% Time  to Customers : An HBR Article detailing how every corporate mission statement pays lip service to respecting customer needs, but actual customer expertise is typically a mile wide and an inch deep

Leadership in Uncertain Times : "management intensity"—deep immersion in the operational details of the business and the outside world, combined with hands-on involvement and follow-through

Aligning the Organization 

One Track, One Train - Employee Alignment to Strategy, Vision & Mission
The speed of engine is the speed of the train. Imagine, if the train was running not on one track but a number of tracks. What if the number of tracks was equal to the number of employees in a company?

Power of Alignment : How right tools can enhance focus and support strategy execution

Social Network Analysis : Uncovering the informal leaders in the organization and using them for driving a strategy  or  a project

Managing Alignment as a Process : An HBR Article by Kaplan & Norton

Engaging the Top Team and Leading the Change

Releasing trapped value through Organization Alignment

Clear Decision Rights and Effective Information Flow Are Keys to Executing Strategy

Cascading Ownership and Mobilizing the Base

Organizing the front line: turning decisions into actions

Communicating Strategy

Crafting a message that sticks :The key to effective communication: make it simple, make it concrete, and make it surprising.

Employee Communication in the times of Change Strategy Execution
Employee communication is vital to success of organizations during times of strategy execution esp. for executing strategies pertaining to change management.

Art of Woo : Using relationship-based, emotionally intelligent persuasion to secure both individual and organizational buy-in, everyone from CEOs and entrepreneurs to team leaders can sell their ideas

Leadership Resources

Washington Post's Forum on Leadership

Leadership Behaviours & Leadership Style Assessment

Best Practices in Leadership Development & Organization