Executing Your Strategy: How to Break It Down and Get It Done

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Executing Your Strategy: How to Break It Down and Get It Done
by Mark Morgan, Raymond Elliot Levitt, William Malek
from Harvard Business School Press

Customer Reviews:

• Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0

• Terrible!
  It's hard to get positive about a management book that begins with a ridiculous quote: "There may be a thousand little choices in a day. All of them count." Ever hear of Pareto's Law?
  The first paragraph then tells us that "The spectacular flameouts of Carly Fiorina at HP, John Akers at IBM, John Sculley at Apple, and Pehr Gyllenhammar at Volvo are merely a few high-profile examples among thousands of CEOs whose strategies fail every year because of poor execution."
  But it's just not true.... more info

• Nice addition to the business literature
  Strategy Execution seems to be the new buzz in making businesses work better. This is good. All that closer to an holistic view of how it all works together seems to be, at least in part, the holy grail of business performance nirvana.
  "Executing your Strategy" is a thoughtful and interesting addition to business literature which provides useful insights worth exploring into making business work better. Unfortunately, amidst the insights, it falls into a genre of books which try to generalise from a... more info

• Connects Strategy with Project Management
  A really good book. It is a pleasure for me to write my opinion about it. Especially the first 3 chapters have opened my eyes. Almost every important aspect is supported by a relative case study.
  Finally, the fact that important research and findings of other prestigious authors is used in a beautiful way along with the author's research makes it really a masterpiece. I feel like I have studied 5 different books on the topic.
  I certainly recommend it.

• What Project Management is Important, How can this be?
  I love this book. The Executives make a decision and then stand back and hope it gets implemented. Everything must be tied together. This book goes through how to Execute Strategy all the way through the organization. Break it down and get it done!

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