Bassedi, an award-winning executive at General Electric and Allied Signals,
came out of retirement to oversee (and bring it back to prominence) Honeywell after its failed merger with General Electric.
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Charan has instructed at Harvard and Kellogg Business Schools. With contributing editor and author Burke,
he offers the view that execution (ie connecting a company’s people, strategy and operations) is what will determine success in today’s business world.
Bossidy and Charan deny that execution is a discipline of strategy, that it is the most important task for any business leader who hopes not only to succeed but to dominate the market,
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and that it is a fundamental part of corporate culture.
Details of both successful and failed executions at companies such as Dell, Johnson & Johnson, and Xerox, to name a few, support not only their approach to exposing the execution, but the need for it.
Each author highlights specific topics in paragraphs beginning with either “Larry” or “Ram,”
and this simple style makes for a very readable book.
Recommended for academic and public libraries.
