Ruthless Execution: What Business Leaders Do When Their Companies Hit the Wall
Today's business leaders need a radically different skill from their recent predecessors: they must know how to know how to manage through adversity while preparing their companies for a new rebirth of success. InRuthless Execution, Amir Hartman, author of the bestsellingNETREADY, identifies the central ingredients that help certain companies to get beyond the wall and thrive--and show how to instill these ingredients in your organization. You will learn when and how to recalibrate the balance between performance and  growth; how to define a coherent, tightly-drawn business philosophy that maps  to specific actions; new ways to promote accountability and business alignment;  and how to use performance metrics without burying people in meaningless  trivia. Also discover how to promote real discipline: the ability to get the job  done quickly, efficiently, and effortlessly--without bureaucracy. Next, you learn how to develop stronger "critical capabilities" for understanding and managing complexity. Along the way, the authors present case studies of world-class enterprises that have used these strategies to achieve breakthrough success. Watch John Chambers maneuver Cisco through the telecom collapse; Lou Gerstner impose powerful new discipline at IBM; Harry Kraemer realign  Baxter with transformed markets; Dan Vasella transform Novartis through  mergers; and many more...all unified by one central factor:ruthless execution.