Ruthless Execution: How Business Leaders Manage Through Turbulent Times, 2nd Edition

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A powerful and proven manager’s guide to handling adversity -— now updated and even more valuable! 

• Gives actionable advice on what to do when growth slows, innovation stalls and times get and stay tough.
• "Ruthless execution" in strategy, tactics, leadership, metrics, accountability, discipline, productivity, staffing and managing complexity.
• New cases address the challenges faced by the modern global organization

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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.

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Table of Contents

Foreword       viii

Part I: Managing Through Tough Times

Chapter 1 Introduction to Ruthless Execution      3

Part II: Leadership

Chapter 2 Strategic Recalibration and the Business Philosophy      13
Chapter 3 Portfolio Management Discipline     31
Chapter 4 Cardinal Health Thrives on Culture of Reinvention      47
 

Part III: Critical Capabilities

Chapter 5 Recalibrating to Compete in Today’s Market     57
Chapter 6 Managing Customer Success: The Last Mile of Customer Loyalty      65
Chapter 7 The Internet’s Third Wave: The Cloudification of Business      75
Chapter 8 Oracle’s Journey to Customer Centricity      87
Chapter 9 Rockwell Embraces the Industrial Ethernet      97

Part IV: Governance

Chapter 10 Tough Rules for Tough Times     105
Chapter 11 Achieving Operational Excellence      113
Chapter 12 The Discipline of Change: Banfield Pet Hospital      125

Part V: What It All Means

Chapter 13 Final Thoughts      137

Index     147

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