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Maxwell's books cover the same material and are much better, IMHO. He was like a neutron bomb -- wherever he went, the people were gone, but the buildings remained. I and many of my colleagues saw the other side of him. John C. Some interesting case studies and generally useful advice. One star off for all the slobbering worship of Jack Welch. Inside the company, he was known as "Neutron Jack." Thanks, but I won't think of Welch as any kind of role model to emulate.Second point off for politocorrectoid smarm -- wherever possible, unidentified people are referred to as "she." This is annoying and distracting.The execution of the book is just mediocre for these reasons.
I bought it for all our managers and best customers. A must have. This is a classic in the field of corporate strategy formulation and execution. I often refer to it before strategy and quarterly reviews.
It also includes mechanisms for changing assumptions as the environment changes and upgrading the organization's capabilities to meet the challenges of an ambitious strategy."A quick read, you'll find lots of ideas to ensure the organization is engaged, effective and executes admirably. While none of their advice is revolutionary, they detail specific techniques to ensure the organization knows what needs to be done. Bossidy and Charan provide concrete ideas to close the gap between what is and would could be. It includes making assumptions about the business environment, assessing the organization's capabilities, linking strategy to operations and the people who are going to implement the strategy, synchronizing those people and their various disciplines, and linking rewards to outcomes. Have you ever wondered how many strategic and operational plans were put in place, only to be left unopened and not implemented. Larry Bossidy, former Chairman and CEO of Honeywell, and Ram Charan, in this book provide a hands on, systematic approach to ensuring accountability and follow through on these plans. and then does it.The discipline of execution is a "systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, questions, tenaciously following through and ensuring acccountability.
This is a solid book with great information written by industry leaders. The examples support not only their how-to method for bringing execution to the forefront but also the need for it. With that said, new isn't always better. Execution is the business leaders' responsibility to make it part of the corporate culture. It's good to get a reminder of solid time test concepts. At first glimpse execution is a duh topic, we know you need execution to get something done, but this book sums up that topic and illustrates concrete methods to improve your teams execution.
Old tested ways can be better than a new theoretical idea. The book asserts that execution is a discipline that is integral to a successful strategy. The book contains details of both successful and unsuccessful executions at corporations such as Dell, Johnson & Johnson, and Xerox. The authors don't bring anything new or ground breaking to light in Execution.
The Seller is not responding to my inquiry after 2 weeks. The item was posted as new and it arrived used. I would not recommend using this Seller.
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