Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
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- ISBN13: 9780609610572
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The book that shows how to get the job done and deliver results . . . whether you’re running an entire company or in your first management job
Larry Bossidy is one of the world’s most acclaimed CEOs, a man with few peers who has a track record for delivering results. Ram Charan is a legendary advisor to senior executives and boards of directors, a man with unparalleled insight into why some companies are successful and others are not. Together they’ve pooled their knowledge and experience into the one book on how to close the gap between results promised and results delivered that people in business need today.
After a long, stellar career with All-purpose Electric, Larry Bossidy transformed AlliedSignal into one of the world’s most admired companies and was named CEO of the year in 1998 by Chief Executive magazine. Accomplishments such as 31 consecutive quarters of earnings-per-share growth of 13 percent or more didn’t just take place; they resulted from the consistent practice of the discipline of execution: understanding how to link together people, strategy, and operations, the three core processes of every business.
Leading these processes is the real job of running a business, not formulating a “vision” and leaving the work of carrying it out to others. Bossidy and Charan show the importance of being deeply and passionately engaged in an organization and why robust dialogues about people, strategy, and operations result in a business based on intellectual honesty and realism.
The leader’s most vital job—selecting and appraising people—is one that should never be delegated. As a CEO, Larry Bossidy personally makes the calls to check references for key hires. Why? With the right people in the right jobs, there’s a leadership gene pool that conceives and selects strategies that can be executed. People then work together to make a strategy building block by building block, a strategy in sync with the realities of the market, the economy, and the competition. Once the right people and strategy are in place, they are then linked to an operating process that results in the implementation of point programs and actions and that assigns accountability. This kind of effective operating process goes way beyond the predictable budget exercise that looks into a rearview mirror to set its goals. It puts reality behind the numbers and is where the rubber meets the road.
Putting an execution culture in place is hard, but losing it is simple. In July 2001 Larry Bossidy was questioned by the board of directors of Honeywell International (it had merged with AlliedSignal) to return and get the company back on track. He’s been putting the thoughts he writes about in Execution to work in real time.Amazon.com Review
Disciplines like strategy, leadership development, and innovation are the sexier aspects of being at the helm of a successful business; really getting things done never seems reasonably as glamorous. But as Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan demonstrate in Execution, the essential difference between a company and its competitor is, in fact, the ability to do.
Execution is “the missing link between aspirations and results,” and as such, building it take place is the business leader’s most vital job. While failure in today’s business environment is regularly attributed to additional causes, Bossidy and Charan argue that the largest hindrance to success is the absence of execution. They point out that lacking execution, leap forwards thinking on managing change breaks down, and they emphasize the fact that execution is a discipline to learn, not merely the tactical side of business. Supporting this with tales of the “execution difference” being won (EDS) and lost (Xerox and Lucent), the authors clarify the building blocks–leaders with the right behaviors, a culture that rewards execution, and a reliable system for having the right people in the right jobs–that need to be in place to manage the three core business processes of people, strategy, and operations. Both Bossidy, CEO of Honeywell International, Inc., and Charan, advisor to corporate executives and leader of such books as What the CEO Wants You to Know and Boards That Work, present experience-tested insight into how the smooth between of these three processes can differentiate one company from the rest. Developing the discipline of execution isn’t made out to be simple, nor is this book a quick, simple read. Bossidy and Charan do, but, offer excellent advice on a neglected topic, building Execution a smart business leader’s guide to enacting success rather than permitting demise. –S. Ketchum
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When I first opened this book, I thought, “This reminders me of somebody”. I pondered over it for a moment then I remembered my ancient companion, Carl K. Karlson. He was a bright lad, very fun and never place a foot incorrect in his life. Then he was executed for failiure to return a library book. This book really disappoints me, as I thought you were more sensitve than this.
I did delight in the bit with the giant monkeys though, but the flying whales were over the top.
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Nick Halle
President of the Wrongly Executed Club
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
This is an brilliant guide for persons who want to improve the results of their business.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
As evidenced by yet another manifestation of my procrastination the book does not work!
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5
… The entire book has light examples and reads like a novelette…
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
What I learn from this book: NEVER buy books based on the book title and bestselling list.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5