Making strategy work: leading effective execution and change

"Without effective execution, no business strategy can succeed. This second edition delivers a powerful framework every leader can use to overcome the obstacles to successfully deploying business strategy. In this book, leading consultant and Wharton professor Lawrence Hrebiniak offers a comprehensive, disciplined process model for making strategy work in the real world. Drawing on his unsurpassed experience, Hrebiniak shows why execution is even more important than many senior executives realize, and sheds powerful new light on why businesses fail to deliver on even their most promising strategies. He offers a systematic roadmap for execution that encompasses every key success factor: organizational structure, coordination, information sharing, incentives, controls, change management, culture, and the role of power and influence in your business. With three new chapters, expanded coverage, and new examples, the Second Edition of this highly successful book is the definitive guide for turning strategy into action."--Descripción del editor.

Learning from Experience -- What You Need to Lead -- The Big Picture -- Effective Change Management -- Applying What You Learn -- The Bottom Line -- On a Final Note -- A Few Thanks -- ch. 1 Strategy Execution Is The Key -- Execution Is A Key To Success -- Making Strategy Work Is More Difficult Than The Task Of Strategy Making -- A Focus On Making Strategy Work Pays Major Dividends -- Managers Are Trained To Plan, Not Execute -- Let The "Grunts" Handle Execution -- Planning And Execution Are Interdependent -- Execution Takes Longer Than Formulation -- Execution Is A Process, Not An Action Or Step -- Execution Involves More People Than Strategy Formulation -- Additional Challenges And Obstacles To Successful Execution -- Wharton-Gartner Survey And Executive Education Data Collection -- The Results: Obstacles To Successful Strategy Execution -- Execution Outcomes -- The Execution Challenge.