Beginning April 20 I will be leading a book study on the book: Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done.  Any of the editions available will serve for the purposes of this study.  This book was originally published in 2002 and updated in 2009.  The book study will be conducted in live sessions for employees of NAU and through this blog for any who cannot attend the live session, whether NAU employee or not.  I will post a summary of the discussions and pose a question or two to which anyone reading along may respond.  Hopefully this will be beneficial in prompting new thoughts and even, dare I say it, execution.

According to the authors, Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan, "Execution is the great unaddressed issue in the business world today.  Its absence is the single biggest obstacle to success and the cause of most of the disappointments that are mistakenly attributed to other causes." p.5  Although this sentence was written in 2002, now ten years later, I still perceive this single factor to be the major culprit in the lack businesses and institutions of higher education achieving the results of the strategic plans so carefully worked out.

For April 20 we will be looking at the introduction and the first chapter.  I you want to follow along, click the "subscribe to" link for either just the posts or the posts and the comments.  Keep in mind I will be making other posts related to leadership issues between the book study posts, unfortunately you can't subscribe to one and not the other.

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