From Chaos to Clarity: Why Strategy Fails And What High-Performing Executive Teams Do Differently
The Executive Leader’s Guide to Strategy That Actually Sticks Most executive teams agree on the strategy. Far fewer stay aligned long enough to execute it. In this practical guide, Harriet Beveridge and Josh Trebilcock explore why even strong strategies fail to gain traction and reveal the three disciplines used by high-performing executive teams to turn […]
What does a gold medal have to do with an organisation’s culture?
Written by Client Director and Consultant Felix Bramley, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?. Three months ago, I left EY to join Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?. It felt risky to leave an organisation of 400,000 people for a 21-person company, but I’d heard good things about Will It? from people I […]
If Your Competitors Copied Your Strategy Tomorrow, Would Your Executive Team Still Give You the Edge?
Written by Client Director Sarah Oates, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?. Most organisations search for advantage in product innovation, technology or market position. But one of the most powerful – and often overlooked – sources of advantage sits much closer to home: The Executive Team itself. Because the real question isn’t how strong […]
From Chaos to Clarity: What 90 Senior Leaders Revealed About the Real Barrier to Strategy Execution
Written by Head of Marketing Josh Trebilcock, Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?. In The 8th Habit, Stephen Covey shares research from a Harris Poll of 23,000 employees that: Only 37% of employees had a clear understanding of their organisation’s goals. And only 20% were enthusiastic about them. Only 15% felt enabled to execute […]
Will It Make The Boat Go Faster? Applies Elite Performance Lessons to Close the Execution Gap in Business
As Featured in Yahoo Finance and Business Insider. Will It Make The Boat Go Faster?® was recently profiled in international business media, highlighting how elite performance principles from Olympic sport are helping leadership teams close the execution gap in business. The feature explores a challenge we see repeatedly in executive teams: strategy is rarely the issue – execution […]
High Performance Leadership Doesn’t Happen by Accident – It Happens by Design
Written by Senior Performance Consultant Natalie Macaluso “Excellence is not an act, but a habit.” Aristotle In elite sport, athletes don’t “fit in” development when their diary calms down. Training is non-negotiable. It’s the job. Yet when we asked a few hundred senior leaders on our recent webinar how often they purposefully work on their […]
How to Break Down Team Silos and Boost Performance
Written by Head of Marketing Josh Trebilcock Every leader knows the feeling. You’ve got talented teams, a clear strategy and you might be making progress – yet somehow, progress feels slower than it should. Priorities begin to compete. Departments pull in slightly different directions. Conversations aren’t joining up. Things start to fall through the cracks. […]
Employee Engagement Strategies for 2026 to Motivate and Align Your People
Written by Head of Marketing Josh Trebilcock In today’s world of relentless change, shifting employee expectations and hybrid ways of working, keeping people truly engaged has never been more challenging. The pace of transformation means priorities evolve quickly, and many leaders are grappling with how to keep their teams connected to purpose when the ground […]
Don’t Leave Culture to Chance: Building High-Performance Organisations in Business
Written by Senior Performance Consultant Portia Light & Head of Marketing Josh Trebilcock Culture is one of the most powerful yet misunderstood drivers of business performance. Leaders know it matters, but too often it’s dismissed as intangible or just left to change. Culture can act as the bridge between strategy and execution. It can shape […]