"failure to execute" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It can be used in situations where someone has not been able to successfully carry out a task or action they were supposed to do. Here is an example: "The project deadline was missed due to the team's failure to execute the plan properly."
We may believe that of a certain idea even the most sincere novelist can make nothing at all, and the event may perfectly justify our belief; but the failure will have been a failure to execute, and it is in the execution that the fatal weakness is recorded.
In the managers' minds, execution equals alignment, so a failure to execute implies a breakdown in the processes to link strategy to action at every level in the organization.
That's what this came down to, a failure to execute at times, a failure to execute in transition, and defensive breakdowns.
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The Red Sox's failure to execute a double play in the sixth inning harmed Martínez last night.
Coughlin said that the offense's performance was disappointing and added that "certainly there's some concern" about its failure to execute.
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Another reason for failure to perform supervision and execute other duties on a timely basis is delay in disbursement of basket funds to the districts from the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare [ Personal communications with DMOs of Lindi Rural and Nachingwea in November, 2008].
A dismayed McHugh reprimanded Metzler in writing for his "failure to properly execute oversight responsibilities for the administration, operation and maintenance of Arlington National Cemetery..
