Feras Alhlou argues that 70% of projects fail not from lack of skill but from skipping fundamentals: rushing discovery, poor planning, missing risks, and working in isolation. He recommends adopting a practical execution system to fix it.
According to McKinsey and Company, around 70% of projects fail to meet their original goals, not because people lack intelligence or work ethic, but because they skip the fundamentals. Now, that statistic comes from large consultancies and complex projects, but the pattern applies at every level. Without a system, things break. New consultants rush through discovery, they don't properly plan the delivery, and they fail to identify risks early. And worse, they go quiet for weeks working behind the scenes only to come back with a big reveal that completely misses the mark. And now the client really starts questioning whether they made the right decision. You beat those odds by mastering a practical execution delivery system.
