Larry Bossidy
Autor/a de Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
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Obres de Larry Bossidy
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Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Bossidy, Larry
- Nom oficial
- Bossidy, Lawrence A.
- Data de naixement
- 1955-03-05
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- USA
- Educació
- Colgate University (BA|Economics|1957)
- Professions
- businessman
executive - Organitzacions
- General Electric
AlliedSignal
Honeywell
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Confronting Reality: Doing What Matters to Get… de Larry Bossidy
This book promotes common sense: stepping out of the center of the activity and asking questions about what you are really doing, really trying to accomplish in your business. It offers some practical and easy enough instructions on how to accomplish this. The overarching concept can be carried into your personal life - setting long term, short term goals and figuring out just how you wish to conduct yourself.
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The building blocks and the core process described in this book are still very valid concepts - and will be as long as there are free enterprise companies. The ideas are somewhat 'dreamy' in the real world because in true capitalism the workers are expendable and as our national culture drifts further and further away from a work ethic, workers see no problem is trashing the company they work for. Nevertheless, the book's points are valid and will work if applied.
At my volunteer job I put my hands on old book on Execution subject. Now I am reading this focus business book. Helps managers to socialize with team to get results.
Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan have written a fine management book with “Execution” and I can't see why other reviewers find it lacking in usefulness. It's true that their systems require a good deal of uncomfortable frank talk between managers but the whole thing is really concerned with getting outside the comfort zone.
Strategy focuses firmly on the company's environment and competitor actions with the core being very open (non-political) decision making with clearly defined actions and a timetable with specific personal responsibilities.
I'm not a great fan of management books in general but I can recommend this one and it has similarities to one of my longtime favourites, Sam Walton's “Made in America” (bad title) and like him, they emphasise the personal touch and a high level of personal involvement.
A downside is the strange neo-liberal economic environment that these systems are designed to exploit (not really their fault they are an important part of it).
For example the idea that outsourcing may damage US industry/ skills and employment is completely absent as is concern with the influence of special interest (of which they are certainly one). Line workers also don't get a single mention.
Try the following quotes from the book:
P196 “Do we have people who know how to source? Do we have people who can run a supply chain that extends worldwide?”
P197 “The short and medium term milestones were to develop programs to move to low-cost manufacturing locations .”
P247 “We also had a program to promote sales of high tech globally, using China as a low cost supply base.”
P223 “You must continue to involve our lobbyist group to show congressional leaders the advantages of the product and dispel some of the current misconceptions.”
P250 “Or maybe you wanted to shut down a plant this year and transfer production to a lower cost country.”
Etc. etc. It's all in line with Jack Welch's 70/70/70 rule (70% of research and development should be outsourced, 70% of that should be outsourced offshore, 70% should be outsourced overseas and sent to India) = A tragedy of the commons, where the Commons is the non-shareholder/non-top executive part of the U.S.A.… (més)
Strategy focuses firmly on the company's environment and competitor actions with the core being very open (non-political) decision making with clearly defined actions and a timetable with specific personal responsibilities.
I'm not a great fan of management books in general but I can recommend this one and it has similarities to one of my longtime favourites, Sam Walton's “Made in America” (bad title) and like him, they emphasise the personal touch and a high level of personal involvement.
A downside is the strange neo-liberal economic environment that these systems are designed to exploit (not really their fault they are an important part of it).
For example the idea that outsourcing may damage US industry/ skills and employment is completely absent as is concern with the influence of special interest (of which they are certainly one). Line workers also don't get a single mention.
Try the following quotes from the book:
P196 “Do we have people who know how to source? Do we have people who can run a supply chain that extends worldwide?”
P197 “The short and medium term milestones were to develop programs to move to low-cost manufacturing locations .”
P247 “We also had a program to promote sales of high tech globally, using China as a low cost supply base.”
P223 “You must continue to involve our lobbyist group to show congressional leaders the advantages of the product and dispel some of the current misconceptions.”
P250 “Or maybe you wanted to shut down a plant this year and transfer production to a lower cost country.”
Etc. etc. It's all in line with Jack Welch's 70/70/70 rule (70% of research and development should be outsourced, 70% of that should be outsourced offshore, 70% should be outsourced overseas and sent to India) = A tragedy of the commons, where the Commons is the non-shareholder/non-top executive part of the U.S.A.… (més)
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- Popularitat
- #11,067
- Valoració
- 3.5
- Ressenyes
- 18
- ISBN
- 44
- Llengües
- 10
- Preferit
- 1