The key to any organisation’s success is its people. Execution: The Discipline Of Getting Things Done, by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan, is a great source of learning about selecting and appraising the right people, and why it is important that this key task never be delegated. With the right people in the right jobs, a leadership pool is created to conceive the right strategy.
The book explains how being passionately engaged, having robust dialogues about strategy and operations, result in a business based on intellectual honesty and realism. It is extremely pragmatic, with examples of the way to set expectations and give feedback.(This story appears in the 23 October, 2009 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)