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On Leadership - What Makes A Great Leader?

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Dan references one his favorite books "Six Disciplines Execution Revolution, by Gary Harpst. "If Much more must also be learned, and for that I refer to you the myriad leadership books on the market. But there's a lot of "leadership fluff" out there, so beware what you buy. No need to waste your time and money.

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What Makes Six Disciplines for Excellence A Different Kind Of Business Book

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What makes Six Disciplines for Excellence different from other business improvement books? ”We interrupt our coverage of meaningless business books to review a book that made the cut: Six Disciplines for Excellence by Gary Harpst. “But the book doesn't stop there! ” (David Rothacker, Rothacker Reviews).

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The First Complete Strategy Execution Program (Summarized)

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Simply reading best-selling books won’t do it. New leadership by itself is not the answer. The reasons other approaches do not last is that they are missing key elements. Technology (i.e., performance mangement software) alone is not enough. Training, by itself, is not adequate.

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The Leapfrog Opportunity For Executing Strategy (Summarized)

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This inflection point has developed primarily because large corporations have made huge investments developing best practices for effective management, strong leadership and strategy execution. One of those breakthrough periods is upon us now, with regard to strategy execution.

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Execution - The Greatest Challenge in Business

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In their book Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done, authors Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan strongly support strategy execution as a critical leadership role, making three clear statements: Execution is a discipline, and it's integral to strategy formulation. Execution is the major job of the business leader.

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The Leapfrog Opportunity For Executing Strategy (Summarized)

Six Disciplines

This inflection point has developed primarily because large corporations have made huge investments developing best practices for effective management, strong leadership and strategy execution. One of those breakthrough periods is upon us now, with regard to strategy execution.

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How Top-Performing Organizations Differ from the Rest

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Our research has found there are five key differences - all of which are described in detail in the top-rated book Six Disciplines for Excellence. Here are the top five key differences of top-performing organizations, in order of their importance: Strength of the Leadership Team. Ability to Attract and Retain Quality People.