Getting things done: just having good ideas is not enough.(People+Skills)

Remodeling,  September, 2005  by Downing, Victoria

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For many of us it's not the lack of good ideas or good intentions that holds us back from success, it's the lack of execution.

Authors Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan--in their best-selling book, Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done--write that "execution is a specific set of behaviors and techniques that companies need to master in order to have competitive advantage." It's a discipline in and of itself, and it's something that must be built into every company.

We've all seen it. We've sat in staff meetings discussing the strategies we're going to put into ...

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