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Execution

The Discipline of Getting Things Done

by Larry Bossidy

BusinessLeadershipNonfiction

Who This Book Is For

The ideal reader is a builder-leader who owns outcomes, not just ideas. They might be a CEO, GM, or team lead scaling beyond hustle—someone feeling the drag between big plans and actual results. They’re impatient with theater, hungry for candor, and willing to be hands-on with people, strategy, and operations. They value realism over optimism, capacity over wishful thinking, and accountability over status updates. They want simple mechanisms—clear priorities, named owners, weekly cadences—that convert ambition into traction. They see culture as what calendars and incentives do, not what posters say. They’re comfortable making trade-offs, killing pet projects, and moving money mid-quarter. They coach talent directly and expect consequences for chronic non-delivery. They prefer leading indicators to retrospective dashboards and treat assumptions as testable bets. Above all, they’re ready to change their own behavior first, because they accept that execution is the leader’s job and the organization will mirror them accordingly.

Book Details

Categories
Business, Leadership, Nonfiction
Pages
278
Published
2002
Language
ENGLISH
Rating
3.9 (26,744 reviews)

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