Book 41: Execution

Great title. Good idea, a bit boring, filled with anecdotal examples and too many adjectives. Execution by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan started very well and the book’s main proposition is strong and clear cut. I also like the tone of the book, very affirmative. However I am uncomfortable with the number of adjectives in the book and the extreme manner by which the authors described people and incidences that occurred in corporate America. For me averages are always better than extreme when writing about history, otherwise one can easily fall into the trap of being a revisionist type of historian. I find it difficult to swallow the Jack Welch was perfect and the other guy was useless storyline.
Overall the book’s main theme, manage your people process, strategy process and opereations process closely and make sure they mesh well is important and true. For that reason alone, the book holds its own. The examples used to demonstrate this however could have been less colorful and still convey the main point. I like the text even though I recognized that the statistical deficiencies. Share prices over time isn’t enough to demonstrate success.
Execution is worth reading if you are interested in knowing more about translating business strategy in to actions. More so it is a popular text with a remarkable title, that will at least score you some brownies.

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