Execution: The Most Enduring Business Idea

From Strategy+Business magazine, comes their listing of "Our 10 Most Enduring Ideas."

The number one enduring business concept? (drum roll please...)

1. Execution (1,911 votes; 49.3 percent of the voters chose this concept).

The rest of the top 10 most enduring business concepts of the past decade?

2. The Learning Organization

3. Corporate Values

4. Customer Relationship Management

5. Disruptive Technology

6. Leadership Development

7. Organizational DNA

8. Strategy-Based Transformation

9. Complexity Theory

10. Lean Thinking

BOTTOMLINE: It’s not just your strategic choices that drive success, but how well you execute them.