|
He was like a neutron bomb -- wherever he went, the people were gone, but the buildings remained. Some interesting case studies and generally useful advice. 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. One star off for all the slobbering worship of Jack Welch. I and many of my colleagues saw the other side of him. John C. Maxwell's books cover the same material and are much better, IMHO.
This is a classic in the field of corporate strategy formulation and execution. I bought it for all our managers and best customers. I often refer to it before strategy and quarterly reviews. A must have.
While none of their advice is revolutionary, they detail specific techniques to ensure the organization knows what needs to be done. Have you ever wondered how many strategic and operational plans were put in place, only to be left unopened and not implemented. 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. 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. 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. 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.
Old tested ways can be better than a new theoretical idea. The authors don't bring anything new or ground breaking to light in Execution.
Execution is the business leaders' responsibility to make it part of the corporate culture. The book contains details of both successful and unsuccessful executions at corporations such as Dell, Johnson & Johnson, and Xerox.
The book asserts that execution is a discipline that is integral to a successful strategy. 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. 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.
With that said, new isn't always better. It's good to get a reminder of solid time test concepts.
The item was posted as new and it arrived used. The Seller is not responding to my inquiry after 2 weeks. I would not recommend using this Seller.
|
