We publish our own research

Partly because we're curious. Mostly because we'd rather show you what we produce than describe it.

Everything here is free and everything here states its methodology up front, including its limitations.

That's not modesty. Research that hides how it was gathered isn't research, and you should hold anyone who publishes it to the same standard. Including us.

The report

The Execution Gap

What executive teams say they're going to do, and what actually gets done

131 senior leaders told us how many of their stated priorities were finished, how confident they had been at the start, and what actually killed the ones that died. The most common cause was not the one we expected, and it was not budget.

September 2026 · 131 respondents · 18 pages

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What we're working on next

We publish two to three studies a year. If there's a question about how organizations actually operate that you'd want answered, tell us. Several of these started as somebody's offhand comment.

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Original research is the most durable asset a company can publish, because it's the one thing a competitor can't reproduce and a language model can't invent. If your organization has a question worth answering, that's Executive Intelligence.