The Execution Standard
The Execution Drift Diagnostic

Score your operating architecture across the five drift patterns.

Questions35
Time~4 minutes
AnalysisPrivate

Strategies don't fail from being wrong, and teams don't fail from being incapable. They fail because nothing between the strategy and the work makes execution hold together. That's an architecture problem, and it shows up in five specific patterns.

This diagnostic scores your operating architecture against those patterns and points to the one most likely pulling hardest.

Before you begin

This is only as useful as you're honest. Answer for how your team actually operates, not how it looks in a board deck. When a question makes you pause, resist the quick "of course we do that" and think of the specific time it didn't. And when you're genuinely torn between two answers, choose the more critical one. This is built to show you what to fix, which it can only do if you let it see the real picture.

Diagnostic complete

Your drift profile is ready.

Enter your name and email to see which of the five drift patterns is most likely pulling hardest in your operating architecture, and what holds beneath it. Your profile shows your score on all five patterns, which one your answers point to, what that pattern typically costs, and the two moves to start with.

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Drift profile: all five patterns

Read this as a starting point for a conversation, not a verdict. It reflects how you answered today, and the five patterns overlap in real organizations.

Two things to start on right now
The other four patterns

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Next step

Want to go a little deeper on this for your specific organization?

The two moves above will help on their own. If you want to go deeper, a short call is where you and I take these two steps and make them specific to your organization and your situation: what this pattern is costing you, and where you would start. No pitch. If the architecture is not your real problem, you leave with a clearer read on what is.

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Built by Mike Herak, founder of The Execution Standard, an engagement that installs execution architecture in leadership teams. Fortune 100 operational complexity experience.