Performing While Transforming: Understanding The CEO’s Agenda For Driving Growth

The economic shifts that occurred in 2008 lurched the global economy into a deep recession that has never fully recovered. To this day, businesses are still falling short, described by what is now becoming a familiar phrase: the gap between strategy and execution.1 This adaptive struggle between the CEO’s growth agenda and its implementation has increased complexity in the workplace, creating a variety of productivity problems in today’s work force. In the face of lackluster results, Human Resources leaders are confronted with an alarming imperative: find a way to help change the business game, or become irrelevant.