Making Strategy Work: Leading Effective Execution and Change 2nd Edition

This book was awesome! Lawrence produced work not just from his practice as a consultant but as professor at Wharton with data to back up his claims. As both an entrepreneur with a background in research, for years I looked with curiosity at how one after the other 'great' strategies failed and how little work has been spent on researching how to adapt and execute the strategies. Also, I was curious how firms get others involved in the strategy planning especially when the organization is huge (GE, Microsoft, IBM etc) to get commitment as well as match assumptions. Lawrence does indeed speak about here.Managers have almost a repulsion to mapping strategies with current reality obstacles or habitual organizational patterns that may act as constraints to execution. This is a good book to bring awareness to the issue as well as solutions.

Planning is one thing, but making the plan work is quite another. Seeing good plans flounder or fail is frustrating. This book definitely relieves this frustration. It lays out the biggest obstacles to effective execution and provides answers to confront and eliminate these obstacles. It really is an execution guidebook.

Execution is at the core of any strategic initiative.The coverage and details dim all the other books on strategy execution I've read.Highly recommended for anyone searching for ways to move to the next level in strategy execution.

Very good guide to manager

The events inside the book are quite interesting.

Very helpful for strategy implementation

Good read. Practical, well laid out.

great deal