Elena Vasquez — Essays https://authority-executive-advisor.digilifesoftware.com/insights.html Essays on strategy execution, governance and leadership transition. en-gb The strategy execution gap is a measurement problem https://authority-executive-advisor.digilifesoftware.com/insight-strategy-execution-gap.html https://authority-executive-advisor.digilifesoftware.com/insight-strategy-execution-gap.html Wed, 26 Aug 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Execution Companies measure whether the plan was written, not whether behaviour changed. Those are different questions, and only one of them matters. Five questions a board should ask that most do not https://authority-executive-advisor.digilifesoftware.com/insight-board-questions.html https://authority-executive-advisor.digilifesoftware.com/insight-board-questions.html Wed, 22 Jul 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Governance Boards are good at asking what happened. They are considerably worse at asking what is not happening — and why nobody raised it. Against the first hundred days https://authority-executive-advisor.digilifesoftware.com/insight-first-hundred-days.html https://authority-executive-advisor.digilifesoftware.com/insight-first-hundred-days.html Wed, 10 Jun 2026 09:00:00 +0000 Leadership The convention pushes new chief executives to act before they understand. The bill arrives in year two, and it is usually large.