The document discusses barriers to implementing strategy and how a balanced scorecard can help overcome those barriers. It outlines common barriers like strategies not being understood, lack of alignment between goals/incentives and strategy, and budgets/resources not linked to strategy. It then presents how a balanced scorecard can help by linking incentives to execution, aligning budgets with strategy, and spending more time on strategy. The balanced scorecard provides a framework to translate strategies into objectives and measures across financial, customer, internal process, and learning/growth perspectives.