Managing for Execution: The Art of Getting Results from Others

As a manager you may excel at organizing resources, resolving issues, or communicating with your staff, but if you and your team fail to execute - nothing else matters. To harness the collective power of your people and consistently achieve the goals you've set out to accomplish, you need to spend more time focusing on execution activities and less on managing the day-to-day chaos that only sustains the status quo. Filled with proven strategies, this eye-opening book shows you how to: create a culture of execution in which every individual is actively engaged in working toward specific objectives; tweak small behaviors to create a greater propensity to produce results; plan for execution and establish the structures that support superior performance; identify and overcome roadblocks within teams, departments, and the organization; measure and track progress to drive outcome-oriented behavior; and more. Complete with stories, examples, and a step-by-step formula for overcoming the kind of "Big Hairy Annoying Problem" that throws a wrench into the best-laid plans - Managing for Execution gives you the tools you need to aim higher and accomplish more than you ever thought possible.