More than 40 years ago, before Effective Execution was Management Concept du jour, Valant and Company created a 13 week commitment planning system to assure that the companies with whom we worked would execute their plans on time and on budget. We knew that without a process or system to assure execution, all else was for naught!
Throughout the 100, I have given many tips for improving company performance – the importance of Identifying goals and objectives quantitatively, the critical need for unrelenting follow-up, the significance of rewarding performance fairly. But the lynchpin is always the system which insures execution.
If you cannot identify such a system, one that assures absolute clarity of expectations, unambiguous communication, individual commitment to established deliverables and a method for unrelenting follow-up, you don't have an effective means of execution.
And, it always comes back to execution! |
