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Ruthless Execution: How Business Leaders Manage Through Turbulent Times, Second Edition
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Ruthless Execution: How Business Leaders Manage Through Turbulent Times, Second Edition

by Amir Hartman, Craig LeGrande
September 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
176 pages
3h 12m
English
Pearson
Content preview from Ruthless Execution: How Business Leaders Manage Through Turbulent Times, Second Edition

2. Strategic Recalibration and the Business Philosophy

You’ve got to eat while you dream. You’ve got to deliver on short-range commitments while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short range, and delivering a long-range plan and executing on that.

—Jack Welch

The Ruthless Execution Checklist

• Are we better at what matters to our customers?

• Which strategic battlefields must we win?

• Are we spending the right amount in the right areas to win these battlefields?

• Have we aligned resources to maximize our chances for success?

• Are we holding people accountable for results?

As noted in Chapter 1, “Introduction to Ruthless Execution ...

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