Leadership
The Art of Action: How Leaders Close the Gaps between Plans, Actions and Results
Stephen Bungay, 2011
Inhaltsverzeichnis des Buches
- Preface
- 1 THE PROBLEM
- What Do You Want Me to Do?
- An unanswered question
- An undiagnosed disease
- Getting things done
- Legacy thinking
- The discipline of execution
- A route map
- 2 THE CAUSE
- The Three Gaps
- Clausewitz and friction
- Friction and nonlinearity
- The three gaps
- Quick recap
- 3 ELEMENTS OF A SOLUTION
- Directed Opportunism
- Culture change
- Helmuth von Moltke and Auftragstaktik
- From Auftragstaktik to mission command
- From mission command to directed opportunism
- Quick recap
- 4 THE KNOWLEDGE GAP
- What and Why
- Von Moltke on strategy
- Strategy, planning, and preparing
- Intent and main effort
- Quick recap
- 5 THE ALIGNMENT GAP
- Briefing and Backbriefing
- Von Moltke writes a directive
- Tracy’s dilemma
- Structuring the organization
- The story of Joe
- Strategy briefing and backbriefing
- Quick recap
- 6 THE EFFECTS GAP
- Independent Thinking Obedience
- Building the organization
- Developing people
- Drivers of behavior
- Aligning processes
- Keeping score
- Quick recap
- 7 LEADERSHIP THAT WORKS
- From Common Sense to Common Practice
- The three levels
- Strategy, tactics, and execution
- The executive’s trinity
- Impact
- Conclusion
- Appendix: On Strategy, 1871
- A Template for Strategy Briefing
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments