CHAPTER 7
Confronting the Elusive: Moving from Planning to Acting
Failure to execute plans is a virtually universal problem. So why is the solution to the problem so elusive?
Legendary executive Larry Bossidy, whose career as a senior executive at General Electric and CEO of Honeywell defined excellence, says failure to execute plagues almost all businesses large and small. The ability to move from thinking and planning to acting and accomplishing challenges everyone.
In Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done (New York: Crown Books, 2002), the book Bossidy coauthored with the globally renowned consultant Ram Charan, he says: “When companies fail to deliver on their promises, the most frequent explanation is that the CEO’s strategy ...
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