Execution
The Discipline of Getting Things Done
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Narrated by:
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John Bedford Lloyd
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Written by:
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Larry Bossidy
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Ram Charan
About this listen
Larry Bossidy is one of the world's most acclaimed CEOs, with a track record for delivering results. Ram Charan is a legendary adviser 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 one guide on how to close the gap between results promised and results delivered.
The discipline of execution means 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 important 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 create a strategy building block by building block, a strategy in sync with the realities of the marketplace, 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 specific programs and actions and that assigns accountability. This kind of effective operating process goes way beyond the typical 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.
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What the critics say
"A terrific book that will make smart managers rethink how business gets done within every level of their organization or department." (Publishers Weekly)
"A great practitioner and an insightful theorist join forces to write a compelling business story of 'how to get it done.'" (Jack Welch)
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- Randy
- 2019-10-13
Fantastic Information...
This could have easily been a boring painfil read but I found it to be the opposite. Almost every chapter was listened to several times. I am starting a new business and I will listen to this book many more times until I finally grasp all the concepts.
Randy
www.IMDb.me/RandyThomas
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- Carla Hogg
- 2023-02-08
Amazing!
An excellent read! The narrator sounds “old school”, but the strategies, stories & lessons were excellent. I’m excited to apply many of these strategies in my business right away.
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- fruit juice
- 2024-08-12
Fantastic content. Hard to understand reader.
This book really makes it clear what the day to day of an effective CEO is like. Also, how one can behave to become even better. I really enjoyed the content.
The reading starts with good speakers but mid-way some passages are read by someone with a non-native English accent. His speaking would mix words together or use non-standard pronunciations and was hard to understand. It is a shame because the content is excellent but I had to rewind the portions where this non-native speaker read their parts. It got even harder to understand him when I listen in the car on my way to work.
Overall excellent book content, but poor listening experience from the non-native speaker. I’m sure he is a plenty talented fellow elsewhere but I had a poor listening experience with him as an audiobook reader.
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- denis
- 2023-06-08
annoying
when talking about deeds we used to say he or she...
now it's all about she or she and she,
how is this better?
it's a very hypocritical and superficial culture professed here.
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