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Sabine VanderLinden discusses the Capacity Gap, a critical leadership issue affecting strategy execution in organizations.

Execution is the new strategy. Yet most organizations still treat it as an afterthought. In this solo episode, Sabine VanderLinden introduces a critical leadership lens: the Capacity Gap—the structural mismatch between strategic ambition and an organization’s ability to deliver at scale. In a world shaped by generative AI, climate pressure, cyber risk, and rising customer expectations, this gap is no longer occasional. It is systemic—and it is widening. Too often, a failed transformation is blamed on talent, technology, or strategy. Sabine challenges that assumption. The real issue is more fundamental: organizations continue to stack priorities without redesigning how work gets executed. The result? Friction, overload, and stalled value creation. The numbers are hard to ignore: * Up to 80% of strategy execution failures link back to the ambition–capacity gap * $1.85 trillion spent on digital transformation in 2022, yet 70% underperforming * In insurance, only 7% of firms have scaled AI enterprise-wide, with most stuck in “pilot purgatory.” * 70% of scaling barriers are organizational—not technological So what does it take to close the gap? Sabine introduces the concept of the…

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Host: Sabine VanderLinden

Topics covered

• capacity gap
• strategy execution
• organizational design
• leadership
• digital transformation

Keywords

• capacity gap
• strategy execution
• organizational design
• digital transformation
• leadership

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