Ruthless Execution: How Business Leaders Manage Through Turbulent Times

Today's business leaders need a radically different skill from their recent predecessors: they must know how to know how to manage through adversity while preparing their companies for a new rebirth of success. In Ruthless Execution, Amir Hartman, author of the bestselling NETREADY, identifies the central ingredients that help certain companies to get beyond the wall and thrive–and show how to instill these ingredients in your organization. You will learn when and how to recalibrate the balance between performance andgrowth; how to define a coherent, tightly-drawn business philosophy that mapsto specific actions; new ways to promote accountability and business alignment;and how to use performance metrics without burying people in meaninglesstrivia. Also discover how to promote real discipline: the ability to get the jobdone quickly, efficiently, and effortlessly–without bureaucracy. Next, you learn how to develop stronger "critical capabilities" for understanding and managing complexity. Along the way, the authors present case studies of world-class enterprises that have used these strategies to achieve breakthrough success. Watch John Chambers maneuver Cisco through the telecom collapse; Lou Gerstner impose powerful new discipline at IBM; Harry Kraemer realignBaxter with transformed markets; Dan Vasella transform Novartis throughmergers; and many more…all unified by one central factor: ruthless execution.