Today's business leaders are confronted with a variety of obstacles that threaten their very survival. To survive and thrive, the modern manager must know how to lead through adversity while preparing their companies for a new era of success. In Ruthless Execution, Amir Hartman and Craig LeGrande identify the primary approaches and techniques that keep companies from falling prey to the myriad of corporate, economic, and market challenges faced by organizations around the world. In the second edition of this book, managers and executives will learn when and how to recalibrate the balance between performance and growth; how to define a coherent, tightly-drawn business philosophy that maps to specific actions; new ways to promote accountability and business alignment; and how to use performance metrics without burying people in meaningless trivia. The authors give practical advice on how to develop stronger critical capabilities for understanding and managing complexity. This fully updated edition offers new techniques for thriving despite adversity and features new examples and cases illustrating the challenges faced by the modern global organization.
About the Author
Amir, Founder and Managing Director of Mainstay, is a leading authority on corporate and technology transformations. He works with customers to help develop and execute customer success strategies. He is an international best-selling author and has served on the Business School faculty at Berkeley, Columbia, and Harvard Business School Interactive. A frequent speaker, he is the author of several influential books, most recently Competing for Customers (2016). Prior to forming Mainstay, Amir served as Managing Director for Cisco System’s Corporate Internet Strategy and the Internet Business Solutions Group. In this role, he was responsible for shaping Cisco’s Internet business strategy and advising key customers on the same.