Six Disciplines® Execution Revolution: Solving the One Business Problem That Makes Solving All Other Problems Easier
by Gary Harpstbook data
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July 1st 2008
by Six Disciplines Publishing
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Hardcover, 208 pages
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0981641105
(isbn13: 9780981641102)
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With all of the pressures successful business leaders have today, none is more urgent or challenging than learning the ability to execute strategy.
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Read in October, 2008
Does your business seem to be in perpetual, reactive, fire-fighting mode? If so, then, Six Disciplines is for you. Its focus is to help you and your organization plan and execute, while at the same time, manage the unknowns of the real world on a daily basis.
First, the author introduces the Business Excellence Model which graphically depicts the balance between an organization's strategy and its execution. Fire-fighting is characterized by a combination of weak strategy and equall...more
First, the author introduces the Business Excellence Model which graphically depicts the balance between an organization's strategy and its execution. Fire-fighting is characterized by a combination of weak strategy and equall...more
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Six Disciplines® Execution Revolution: Solving the One Business Problem That Makes Solving All Other Problems Easier
Gary Harpst
Six Disciplines Publishing
Harpst asserts that "excellence is the enduring pursuit of balanced strategy and execution. Strategy requires choosing what promises to make to all stakeholders and a roadmap for delivering on those promises. Execution requires getting there, while overcoming unending surprises. Of the two, execution is far more dif...more
Gary Harpst
Six Disciplines Publishing
Harpst asserts that "excellence is the enduring pursuit of balanced strategy and execution. Strategy requires choosing what promises to make to all stakeholders and a roadmap for delivering on those promises. Execution requires getting there, while overcoming unending surprises. Of the two, execution is far more dif...more
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01/01/09
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Page 108. Finish reading. Good stuff!
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Read in November, 2008
Pretty much just ok. The big lesson - learn to execute. Duh.
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Ok business book. We know what we should do, but because we are human, we don't. Strategies on how to better do the things we know we should do. Definately built on the idea of groups of people vs. one person building a company.
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Read in December, 2008
I enjoyed the book, especially the first half. However, I feel like I am not in a place to full realize many of the lessons presented in it.
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