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| Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done | 
 enlarge | Authors: Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan
Creators: Charles Burck, Clare Smith
Publisher: Random House Business Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 48979
Media: Paperback
Pages: 288
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 9 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0712625984
Dewey Decimal Number: 658
EAN: 9780712625982
ASIN: 0712625984
Publication Date: September 5, 2002
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Condition: Pages slightly tanned but clean. Bump and creasing on top corner of pages. Creasing to cover. Next working day despatch, first class within the UK.
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 developing strategies that work August 11, 2008
The title "execution" may make you think this book is about executing decisions after they have been made. This is not at all the case. This book describes everything you have to do to develop strategies that are likely to succeed. It describes three processes, the strategic process, the people process and the operational process. The book describes in the most detail the people process. If you do not have the right people in the right positions the strategic process and operational processes will fail. These three processes are interdependent. The interdependence and the processes are described very clearly. That enables you to test if you are operating the right way.
The book describes "operationalizing" culture. The book describes operationalizing culture, where culture is defined as the sum of its shared values, beliefs and norms of behaviour. It is a very good chapter with an example of the wrong culture and right culture. The book from Louis Gerstner "Who says elephants can't dance is very helpful as is "From Good To Great" by Jim Collins. culture is defined as the sum of its shared values, beliefs and norms of behaviour. It is a very good chapter with an example of the wrong culture and right culture. It is a major challenge to figure out what the culture should be. The book from Louis Gerstner "Who says elephants can't dance" is very helpful as is "From Good To Great" by Jim Collins on this point.
Dialogue is also described as an essential part of operationalising culture. It is a very important goal requiring a great deal of skill and effort you should not underestimate. The book "On dialogue" from David Bohm is worth reading as it explains very lucidly all the obstacles you have to be overcome.
The "execution" book presents an excellent framework of processes that include establishing the right culture, using, what are referred to as "robust" and "candid"dialogues
You better do it... July 21, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
An excellent book in terms of understanding thet the difference in buisness is not planning the best strategy, but in superbly executing a good (acceptable) one. Bossidy makes his point of giving you the guidelines as to ensure things that must be done, are done so. Worth reading, but more importantly, doing...
 Follow it up June 29, 2006
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
To be honest I was not impressed at all with this book! The authors tend to give their real life experiences about how to be a very efficient CEO and goes on about this CEO failed because of this or that because he did not follow through! Hmmm.... I guess it is like the usual pep up talk!
And if management & leardership were that simple! January 4, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Very simply explained, this is maybe a shot in the foot for lots of managers with MBA etc. Executing is a matter of having a clear and simple plan (so not too many ideas to chase at the same time) and making sure the plan is implemented, results are measured intellengently and you get constant feedback from all people involved, not only the ones who report directly to you. Basically, it is showing good project management skills as opposed to live in the ivory tower. Very good book for people who like to get to the point!
 Nothing new July 27, 2005
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
Having been recommended this book as something novel, I was eager to read. Unfortunately I was bitterly disappointed. The book as a rambling tale of success and failure akin to an autobiography. There is no scientific structure and no isolation of cause and effect to enable lessons to taken away and applied, e.g. this guys business failed because he didn't execute, another guys succeeded because he did?This book is generally a tale of good management practices such as setting clear goals, managing through to delivery and taking time to understand problems rather than shouting about missed targets. Unfortunately the business world is more complex than merely substituting the word 'success' for 'execution'.
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