Ruthless Execution: How Business Leaders Manage Through Turbulent Times

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.

An authority on corporate and technology transformations, Amir Hartman is an international bestselling author and advisor to leading global businesses. Hartman has been on the faculty at Columbia s Graduate School of Business, Berkeley s Haas School of Business, and Harvard Business School Interactive where he s taught management of innovation and technology to senior business leaders. A frequent speaker at business leader forums, he is the author of several influential books, most recently ＂Ruthless Execution: How Business Leaders Manage Through Turbulent Times.＂ Prior to forming Mainstay, Mr. Hartman 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 Internet business strategies.
Craig LeGrande has served as senior advisor to leading companies in the automotive, retail, and high-technology industries, helping them identify new market opportunities and develop effective capital investment strategies. The author of more than a hundred case studies and research papers for high-technology leaders such as Oracle, SAP, EDS, BearingPoint, EMC, and Network Appliance, Mr. LeGrande is an expert at proving business value by means of objective, quantitative evidence and analysis. Prior to forming Mainstay, Mr. LeGrande worked in Cisco s Internet Business Solutions Group and Accenture s Strategic Services group. He received an MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and a BS in Electrical Engineering with Honors.＂