Week 79 (19.10.08)

Learn

Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done
by Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan, 2002, Crown Business, New York, pp1-9

• A fundamental problem with execution is that people think of it as the tactical side of the business, something leaders delegate while they focus on the perceived "bigger" issues.
• This is wrong. Execution is not just tactics - it is a discipline and a system.
• Execution must be a systematic process of rigorously discussing hows and whats, questioning, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability
• It requires robust dialogue to surface the realities of the business.

Unlearn

Before reading this book, I am quite in the same opinion thinking execution as tactical plan of carrying out a task. Execution will help a business leader to choose a more robust strategy with the right resources and the right people to execute it.

Unlearn

Understand better now that execution is not just tactics - it is a discipline and system, discussing how and what, questioning, following through and ensuring accountability taken by leaders. For my BAP project, in order for me to add value for Pfizer and able to apply leadership improvement based on the findings, priorities were set and action plans were drafted by me for execution. On going feedback will be gathered through meetings in measuring the progress.