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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Ram Charan, Larry Bossidy, Charles Burck
mhumby123's review against another edition
1.0
Awful book, had about 30 pages of useful information.
nanometers's review
slow-paced
3.5
High level of back and forth for where it is important to focus for business operations. Connecting strategy and ops with a view toward common sense of finance connecting to reality. But hard to see the forest through the trees at such a high level.
jeremypmeyers's review against another edition
3.0
Reasonably good business book. Stresses the importance of aligning strategy with personnel and resource plan, and creating the mechanisms for follow-up on important details. Most of it was oriented towards a much larger company with separate HR functions and a near-constant hiring/promotion process than a smaller company with comparatively static staffing and comparatively dynamic internal changes. I might find this book more useful when the company I work for is much larger than it is today.
mrsdragon's review against another edition
2.0
This book was a bizarre mix of really solid advice with things that, after reading [b:Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A'S, Praise and Other Bribes|541132|Punished by Rewards The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A'S, Praise and Other Bribes|Alfie Kohn|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1223663072s/541132.jpg|776112] absolutely grated on me. I made it half way through in 6 weeks and threw in the towel. Too many other books to be read.
merqri's review against another edition
3.0
It's a good book. Once done it makes you feel that you knew this before. There aren't a lot of aha moments, but the known aspects are very well documents in a sequence to follow. That's the success of the book.
The first review of the book does a brilliant job of collating the key takeaways, start there and then go on to read the book.
Bottom-line remains that the leader should be present where the rubber meets the road.
The first review of the book does a brilliant job of collating the key takeaways, start there and then go on to read the book.
Bottom-line remains that the leader should be present where the rubber meets the road.
efabri123's review against another edition
1.0
I didn't care much for this book. I didn't find it to be motivational or overly helpful when it came to productivity. It's strictly from a "running a company" standpoint.
rick2's review against another edition
3.0
Some strong points. Nothing too novel but a decent reiteration of what seems like slightly outdated leadership advice. Employees matter, focus on results, get into the weeds and really worked understand what it’s like on the ground floor. This is generally geared towards a sort of multi conglomerate of the 70s through early 2000s where there was a very hierarchical leadership structure.
Not sure about their love of all things Jack Welch. Welsh rode a wave of financial innovations at GE that made the company a lot of money but is now responsible for where it is today. His short term view handicap many of the robust features and the toxic environment that he created is not something I think should be celebrated, this undermines the authors credibility‘s and makes me wary of their conclusions.
it’s a little dense for a quick read but probably a valuable one if you’re working in the corporate world that a company is more than maybe 1000 people.
Not sure about their love of all things Jack Welch. Welsh rode a wave of financial innovations at GE that made the company a lot of money but is now responsible for where it is today. His short term view handicap many of the robust features and the toxic environment that he created is not something I think should be celebrated, this undermines the authors credibility‘s and makes me wary of their conclusions.
it’s a little dense for a quick read but probably a valuable one if you’re working in the corporate world that a company is more than maybe 1000 people.