Master the New Model for Success

Confronting Reality

The authors of the international bestseller Execution explain how to run a successful business by accepting the reality of the world around us.

A great practitioner and an insightful theorist join forces to write a compelling business story of 'how to get it done'

Bossidy and Charan offer good advice on a neglected topic, making Execution a smart business leader's guide to enacting success

Larry Bossidy, former Chairman and CEO of Honeywell International, has become a media and lecture circuit mainstay. 
 
Ram Charan, the legendary strategy consultant, works with companies around the world in almost every industry.

The tectonic plates of business are shifting and the result is a new reality in what it takes to run a profitable, successful business. The authors of Execution show what it takes to muster the intellectual and personal courage to understand the fundamental issues at the core of your business and provide the tools for taking action. 'Confronting reality' is the ability to see the world the way it really is, not the way you would like it to be. 
 
Confronting Reality provides the tools that will build the foundation for future prosperity and success: 
 
How to focus on your external industry, not just your direct competitors 
 
How to prepare a strategy that confronts reality 
 
How to design rewards and link them to performance 
 
How to reframe and reposition a business to ensure maximum success

The Discipline of Getting Things Done

Execution

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

Praise for Execution: 
'A great practitioner and an insightful theorist join forces to write a compelling business story of "how to get it done"' Jack Welch

Larry Bossidy is chairman and chief executive officer of Honeywell International, a Fortune 100 diversified technology and manufacturing leader. Earlier in his career he was chief operating officer of General Electric Credit (now GE Capital Corporation), executive vice president and president of GE's Services and Materials Sector and vice chairman of GE. Ram Charan is a highly sought advisor to CEOs and senior executives in companies ranging from start-ups to the Fortune 500, including GE, DuPont, EDS, Universal Studios and Verizon. Dr. Charan has taught at both Harvard Business School and the Kellogg School of Northwestern University. Charles Burck is a freelance writer and editor. Earlier in his career he was an editor at Fortune magazine.

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 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.

Ram Charan

Larry Bossidy

Charles Burck

It's rare to find a book like this that blends smart practice with intelligent articulation of how to get things done. Do yourself a favour. Buy it.

When Execution was first published in 2002, it changed the way we did our jobs. By analysing the discipline of getting things done, it helped thousands of business people to make the final leap to success. Now, Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan reframe their empowering message for a world in which the old rules have been shattered and radical change is becoming routine. For the foreseeable future: 
 
- Growth will be slower. But the company that executes well will have the confidence, speed and resources to move fast as new opportunities emerge. 
 
- Competition will be fiercer, with companies searching for any possible advantage in every area. 
 
- Governments will take on new roles in their national economies. And companies that execute well will be more attractive as partners and suppliers, and better prepared to adapt to new waves of regulation. 
 
- Risk management will become a top priority for every leader, and every company will be looking for the edge in detecting new internal and external threats. 
 
Forget formulating a 'vision', then leaving others to carry it out: Execution shows you how to link together people, strategy and operations - the three core elements of every organisation - and create a business based on dialogue, intellectual honesty and realism. With case histories from the real world, Execution provides the realistic and hard-nosed approach to business success that could only come from authors as accomplished and insightful as Bossidy and Charan.

Larry Bossidy

Praise for Execution

It's rare to find a book like this that blends smart practice with intelligent articulation of how to get things done. Do yourself a favour. Buy it.

A how-to book for the can-do boss.

Books by Larry Bossidy

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