Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 658.401 EAN: 9780981641102 Format: Illustrated ISBN: 0981641105 Label: Six Disciplines Publishing Manufacturer: Six Disciplines Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 208 Publication Date: July 01, 2008 Publisher: Six Disciplines Publishing Sales Rank: 10539 Studio: Six Disciplines Publishing
Product DescriptionWith all of the pressures successful business leaders have today, none is more urgent or challenging than learning the ability to execute strategy.
While larger businesses have the luxury of budgets and resources to meet this challenge, it's the small and midsized businesses that now have a tremendous opportunity to level the playing field, leapfrog the expensive, outdated approaches of the past, and attack the challenge of execution in a revolutionary way. The key insights are:
Excellence is the enduring pursuit of balanced strategy and execution
Planning and executing, while at the same time dealing with the inevitable surprises, is the biggest challenge in business
Overcoming this challenge is what we mean by solving the one problem that makes all others easier
Failing to solve the problem destines your organization to a reactive, fire-fighting future.
Based on breakthrough research, field testing and proven best-practices, the thought-leading vision described by Gary Harpst in Six Disciplines® Execution Revolution sets a new course for how small and midsized businesses can finally confront the never-ending challenge of executing strategy.
As a follow-up to the success of Six Disciplines for Excellence, Harpst's new book, Six Disciplines® Execution Revolution, details the elements of a complete strategy execution program, clarifies how it could only have happened now, and explains why such a program will soon become a mainstream requirement for your business.
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"After many years, I've finally come to view excellence as the enduring pursuit of balanced strategy and execution."
Content
Chapter 1: Business Excellence; the author exhibits a fairly nice model of business excellence balancing Strategy and Execution.
Chapter 2: The Biggest Problem in Business; author wrote, with some supporting information, that execution is the biggest problem.
Chapter 3: Why Is It So Difficult?; "Usually, it's easier not to do what we know we should" sums up the chapter.
Chapter 4: The Leapfrog Opportunity; you'll have the leapfrog opportunity if you invest in quality programs, business process best practices, personal productivity tools, business intelligence, ... Read More
An excellent pick for anyone looking to make their business venture an enduring success.
How does one make their particular business excel past all their competitors? "Six Disciplines Execution Revolution: Solving the One Business Problem That Makes Solving All Other Problems Easier" is a thoroughly 'user friendly' and practical guide to help business owners answer that very question. Promoting 'The Excellence Business Model', which pushes balanced strategy and execution, successful entrepreneur and author Gary Harpst helps new business owners deal with anticipated and unexpected challenges as they occur and how they to avoid failure before such difficulties become an insurmountable problem. "Six Disciplines Execution Revolution" is a excellent pick for anyone looking to make their business venture an enduring success.
Holistic Approach Makes This A Winner
The principles for success in business are not unlike the principles that support and create success in many of life's endeavors. What Gary Harpst has tapped into, and what makes Six Disciplines® Execution Revolution: Solving the One Business Problem That Makes Solving All Other Problems Easier and the ideas behind it so unique, in comparison to others like it, is the bringing of a real world, dynamic involvment in everything that works its way toward effective strategy and "execution".
I have told people that the closest analogy I can come up with, to sum up my experience with Six Disciplines, is to reference a comparison of Bruce Lee to a classical Karate instructor. -- Where the Karate instructor would measure his talent by his ability to perform and display increasingly complex and difficult techniques, Bruce Lee would excel at becoming ... Read More
A Great Book for a Struggling Business Environment
With our struggling economy, the crisis with rising prices in energy and the continual, increasing rise in food prices, a large percentage of American businesses are struggling. The timing of Six Disciplines® Execution Revolution: Solving the One Business Problem That Makes Solving All Other Problems Easier could not have been better.
Six Disciplines® Execution Revolution: Solving the One Business Problem That Makes Solving All Other Problems Easier details a strategy execution program for your organization. The guides in Six Disciplines® Execution Revolution: Solving the One Business Problem That Makes Solving All Other Problems Easier with will assist any manager at any level with moving into a proactive stance rather than reactive. Surprises - some small, some business killers - are around every turn. Six Disciplines® Execution Revolution: Solving the One Business Problem That Makes Solving All Other Problems Easier deals with these issues head on in an open and honest way.
The field testing that was performed along with the best practices of know organizations takes a lot of pressure off for those who wish to pursue the advice in this ... Read More
The Persistence to Make the Hard Choices
In my book, Mastering The Management Buckets: 20 Critical Competencies for Leading Your Business or Non-profit, I urge leaders and managers to "Avoid Management-by-Bestseller Syndrome." That's why Six Disciplines® Execution Revolution: Solving the One Business Problem That Makes Solving All Other Problems Easier gets my high-five rating. It fits with my Management Buckets system--and it's all about execution. As Peter Drucker said, "Vision without execution is delusion." Plus, the author's recommended books (in the resource section) give you a synergistic context. The book won't take you off-course. It's a complementary tool to help you walk the next steps.
"The first premise of Six Disciplines® Execution Revolution: Solving the One Business Problem That Makes Solving All Other Problems Easier is that what most business leaders think is their greatest challenge really isn't," says Harpst, who implemented more than 60,000 business management ... Read More
