Wharton School Publishing
Making Strategy Work: Leading Effective Execution and Change
Without effective execution, no business
strategy can succeed. Unfortunately, most managers know far more about
developing strategy than about executing it — and overcoming the difficult
political and organizational obstacles that stand in their way. In
this book, leading consultant and Wharton Professor Lawrence Hrebiniak,
academic director of Wharton's Implementing
Strategy: Leading Effective Execution program, offers the
first comprehensive, disciplined process model for making strategy
work in the real world.
Without effective execution,
no business strategy can succeed. Unfortunately, most managers know
far more about developing strategy than about executing it — and
overcoming the difficult political and organizational obstacles that
stand in their way.
Drawing on his extensive experience, Hrebiniak
shows why execution is even more important than many senior executives
realize, and sheds powerful new light on why businesses fail to deliver
on even their most promising strategies. Next, he offers a systematic
roadmap for execution that encompasses every key success factor: organizational
structure, coordination, information sharing, incentives, controls,
change management, culture, and the role of power and influence in
your business. Making Strategy Work concludes with a start-to-finish case study showing how to use Hrebiniak's ideas
to address one of today's most difficult business execution challenges:
ensuring the success of a merger or acquisition.
Download the first chapter for free.
