Awesomely Simple: Essential Business Strategies for Turning Ideas Into Action

5.3. SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS

• Urgency and discipline must coexist.

• Most organizations execute only 10 to 15 percent of their major goals.

• The four biggest roadblocks that almost nine hundred executives identified to moving their businesses forward are lack of a well-communicated vision, lack of courageous communication, lack of disciplined execution, and tolerating mediocrity.

• Process and systems drive effective execution.

• There are nine steps for effective execution:

  1. Tie execution into the vision and values of the organization.

  2. Focus the organization on a few key strategies to execute.

  3. Put together a guiding coalition of key leaders who demonstrate personal commitment to being living examples of disciplined execution.

  4. Fully align all of the major strategies ...