Larry Bossidy

As the title suggests, the book focuses on execution. Bossidy states that there
are oodles of books on strategy, but there are precious few on Execution –
thus his reason for writing the book, along with the advisor to CEOs, Ram
Charan. After all, the best strategy in the world isn’t worth a dime unless it is
actually put in place.

In his book, Execution, Larry Bossidy mentions that Leadership is not about strategizing and creating vision then dispensing it on managers to do the grunt work. Leadership is not about presiding. Leadership is about being actively involved in the business. To Read more, click here.

In Larry Bossidy's book, Execution, he references Richard Pascale's quote when describing how to "operationalize" culture.

 

"People are much more likely to act their way into a new way of thinking, than think their way into a new way of acting."

In his book, Execution, Larry Bossidy states that in his first two years at Allied Signal he devoted thirty to forty percent of his time to leadership development. That’s how much importance he placed on the activity. Once he felt that he had a good pipeline of leaders he dropped that down to twenty percent of his time. That’s a lot of time for anyone to spend on leadership development, let alone a CEO of a major corporation.