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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 658
EAN: 9780981641102
ISBN: 0981641105
Label: Six Disciplines Publishing
Manufacturer: Six Disciplines Publishing
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 208
Publication Date: July 01, 2008
Publisher: Six Disciplines Publishing
Studio: Six Disciplines Publishing

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
With all of the pressures successful business leaders have today, none is more urgent or challenging than learning the ability to execute strategy.

While larger businesses have the luxury of budgets and resources to meet this challenge, it's the small and midsized businesses that now have a tremendous opportunity to level the playing field, leapfrog the expensive, outdated approaches of the past, and attack the challenge of execution in a revolutionary way. The key insights are:

• Excellence is the enduring pursuit of balanced strategy and execution
• Planning and executing, while at the same time dealing with the inevitable surprises, is the biggest challenge in business
• Overcoming this challenge is what we mean by solving the one problem that makes all others easier
• Failing to solve the problem destines your organization to a reactive, fire-fighting future.

Based on breakthrough research, field testing and proven best-practices, the thought-leading vision described by Gary Harpst in Six Disciplines® Execution Revolution sets a new course for how small and midsized businesses can finally confront the never-ending challenge of executing strategy.

As a follow-up to the success of Six Disciplines for Excellence, Harpst's new book, Six Disciplines® Execution Revolution, details the elements of a complete strategy execution program, clarifies how it could only have happened now, and explains why such a program will soon become a mainstream requirement for your business.




Rating: - A Great Book for a Struggling Business Environment
With our struggling economy, the crisis with rising prices in energy and the continual, increasing rise in food prices, a large percentage of American businesses are struggling. The timing of this book could not have been better.

This book details a strategy execution program for your organization. The guides in this book with will assist any manager at any level with moving into a proactive stance rather than reactive. Surprises - some small, some business killers - are around every ... Read More

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Rating: - The Persistence to Make the Hard Choices
In my book, Mastering The Management Buckets: 20 Critical Competencies for Leading Your Business or Non-profit, I urge leaders and managers to "Avoid Management-by-Bestseller Syndrome." That's why this book gets my high-five rating. It fits with my Management Buckets system--and it's all about execution. As Peter Drucker said, "Vision without execution is delusion." Plus, the author's recommended books (in the resource section) give you a synergistic context. The book won't take you off-course. ... Read More

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Rating: - Planning and Execution
While the ultimate message put forth in this book is about executing your plans and how to go about that, it is very much based on what needs to be done first - and that is Planning, Goal-Setting. Without this foundation in place first, any actions in business will be haphazard, directionless and misguided.

Six Principles Execution Revolution is an excellent business source that offers some unique insights into how to put your business goals into action. Having a plan is one thing. Being ... Read More

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Rating: - Great Stories, But Be Careful
Harpst's great book should be tempered with book's like How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business and The Halo Effect: ... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers. If we are careful to qualify how much can really be gathered even from a single person's "sample", even it it is the numerous experiences of someone like Gary Harpst, then we can learn a lot from his anecdotal evidence.

I would add methods Hubbard's How to Measure Anything: Finding ... Read More

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Rating: - Execution Involves Every Person, Every Day
In a format that's easy to read and follow, Six Disciplines Execution Revolution captivated me from beginning to end. The author, Gary Harpst, uses practical experiences and field research (not ivory-tower academic theory) to craft a complete program for strategy execution. This book is not just for senior leaders - it's for everyone, as everyone is responsible for executing plan, every day. Harpst eloquently confirmed what I've thought all along: Excellence is a journey that never ends. It's an enduring ... Read More

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