Awesomely Simple: Essential Business Strategies for Turning Ideas Into Action

5.2. The Nine Steps to Ensure Disciplined Execution

Although the title of this section specifies that there are nine steps to ensure disciplined execution, in fact none of the processes I put forward in this book are a paint-by-the-numbers remedy to everything that ails your business. Business improvement initiatives such as benchmarking, best-in-class studies, competitive intelligence, creative swiping, and all the others are essential tools in creating a great organization, but never think that you can simply pick up a process or strategy from another company and implement it in your company. You have to take the ideas in this book (or any other book) and figure out how they work best for your organization, your people, your customers, and ...