Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done

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, with a track record for delivering results that has few peers. Ram Charan is a legendary advisor to senior executives and boards of directors, with unparalleled insight into why some companies are successful and others are not. The result is the book people in business need today. One with a highly practical framework for closing the gap between results promised and results delivered.

After a long, stellar career with GE, Larry Bossidy became CEO of Allied Signal and transformed it into one of the world's most admired companies. Accomplishments like 31 consecutive quarters of earnings-per-share growth of 13% or more don't just happen. They result from consistent practice of the discipline of execution: understanding how to link the three core processes of any business together: people, strategy and operations.

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 synch with the realities of the marketplace, the economy and the competition. It's then linked to an operating process that converts the strategy into specific programs and actions and that assigns accountability.