Succeeding with Inefficiency: The Delusion of Poor Strategic Thinking

Source: http://www.xkcd.com/1445/

"90% of strategies fail due to poor execution. ..." - Harvard Business School research

"Three out of the four projects never leave the starting line." - Anonymous 

“60%+ of strategies fail due to a misunderstanding of the goal and their surroundings.”     - 2009 Survey from Projectsatwork.com

70% of all strategies fail,  (Most of these strategies were basically sound, but could not be executed). 
-  An estimation by Fortune Magazine 

Comments From The Compass Desk 

We believed that the origin of this problem begins in the poor understanding of the following three points:

• the poor assessment of the Big Tangible Picture of one's terrain;
• the poor positioning of oneself through the planning and preparation" process; and
• the "influencing of the terrain and the competition within it.

One cannot plan and execute when he/she does not understand their grand terrain and beyond. Do you agree?