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Awesomely Simple: Essential Business Strategies for Turning Ideas Into Action
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Awesomely Simple: Essential Business Strategies for Turning Ideas Into Action

by John Spence
September 2009
Beginner content levelBeginner
208 pages
3h 53m
English
Jossey-Bass
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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 ...

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