Top 10 Most Overrated Business Strategies

Walk into any boardroom and you'll hear the same handful of strategies treated as gospel: Six Sigma, OKRs, digital transformation, disruption. Consultants package them, MBAs repeat them, and executives pay millions to implement them — often with little to show for it. This list takes a skeptical look at ten of the most overhyped business strategies of the last two decades. Some had real results in narrow contexts; most have been stretched, copied, and sold well beyond what the evidence supports. Which one do you think is most overrated? Be the first to vote at the bottom of the list — and see how your ranking compares with other readers.