Why Action Eats Strategy for Breakfast

“Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a nightmare.” as a Japanese proverb says. There are many reasons why companies fail to execute their strategies. Often it can be boiled down to that the strategies are not actual strategies. So what is happening? One of the reasons is the overflow of action points accompanied by the lack of a shifted mindset towards a clear future vision instead. Let me take you through the journey of how actions eat strategy for breakfast and a few ways to overcome this obstacle.