Execution Plain and Simple: Twelve Steps to Achieving Any Goal On Time and On Budget
- 2h 42m
- Robert A. Neiman
- McGraw-Hill
- 2004
Robert A. Neiman has helped major corporations achieve major gains in performance and profitability. He has put his experience on paper for managers who know their organizations have much more potential, can and must do better, and who need to overcome busyness, delays, diversions, and other barriers. His 12-steps provide specific guidance. They fill gas in the literature about goal setting, execution, project management, leadership and change, and answer questions from the front line.
How Do I:
- Take Responsibility?
- Define and Get Commitment on Assignments?
- Organize the Best Team for the Job?
- Shape a Strategy That Will Work?
- Get Things Moving?
- Make Demands Effectively?
- Follow Up Like Crazy Without Driving People Crazy?
- Use Politics to Advantage?
- Solve the Problems, Cut Through Fatigue and Apathy?
About the Author
Robert A. Neiman holds an M.B.A. from Harvard and is a partner in the management consulting firm of Robert H. Schaffer & Associates. He has consulted for such companies as Allied Signal, CAN Financial, General Electric, Motorola, PNC Financial, and many others, and has published numerous articles on execution.
In this Book
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Execution, Plain and Simple—Twelve Steps to Achieving Any Goal on Time and on Budget
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Introduction
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Take Responsibility— Who, Me?
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What’s That Again? Define Your Assignment—In Writing
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Organize Your Core Team and Create a Strategy
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Get Input and Support from Key Players; Refine the Strategy
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Hold a Compelling Kickoff Event to Create Momentum
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Chapter 6: Make All the Pieces Fit. Use Plans, Schedules, Budgets, and Controls
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Yes, I Really Mean It. Make Demands Effectively
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Follow Up Like Crazy without Driving People Crazy
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Chapter 9: Use Political Skills to Win Constituents and Overcome Opposition
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Chapter 10: Use Creative Problem Solving to Overcome Unforeseen Risks, Delays, and Obstacles
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Energy Flagging? Manage an Intense Push to Get the Final Results and Rewards
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Chapter 12: Capture and Spread What You Learn
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The Zest Factors: What Crises Can Teach Us about Accelerated Execution
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Small-Scale “Breakthrough Projects:” Get Crucial Results Fast, Generate Momentum, and Build New Organizational Capabilities
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Multiply Breakthrough Project Successes to Reach the Big Goals
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The Senior Management Task: Focus Your Organization on the Few Most Crucial Goals
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