"Execution is the missing link"- Larry Bossidy& Ram Charan
Have you ever wondered why you come up with ground-breaking initiatives and yet, you never seem to get them off the ground? Has it bothered you that the dream you have nursed in your heart for years are yet to become reality? Do you feel helpless when you see your desired destination and compare it with your current location? How do the unchecked boxes on your to-do list make you feel at the end of every day?
According to Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan, in their masterpiece titled 'Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done', execution is the missing element. You see, it is relatively easy to envision and draw up plans. Indeed, you can set goals and draw up a corresponding plan to follow to the end of reaching them. But without the critical element of 'Execution', your goals are as good as fantastic wishes!
Execution is what breathes life to your wishes. It is what takes your plans from the rosy world of conception and brings them into the no-nonsense, cold world of reality. Execution is what makes you sit down to identify what you want, how you will get it, when you will get it and what it will cost you to get it. More importantly, it makes you resolve to get it, and you actually get it! Execution is what gives the backbone to your wishbone. According to Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan," the absence of execution is the single biggest obstacle to success and the cause of most of the disappointments that are mistakenly attributed to others". Execution is the missing link between aspiration and results. It is the single most important element that separates those who succeed, and those who wish they could!
Great One, the extent to which you will see your vision become reality is entirely up to you. It is not up to your level of education. It has nothing to do with your intelligence. In fact, it is possible for one to be brilliant and hardworking but might not be effective by giving priority to getting things done. And that, exactly, is what execution is about: GETTING THINGS DONE! Now, I urge you to do a quick appraisal of yourself. How many uncompleted assignments or projects have you to your name? This dispassionate assessment of yourself and the result(s) you get will reveal to you how much of an executor you are.
In the paragraphs below, I share, with you,steps that can be taken, either to commence your journey to being an executor or to reawaken the executor in you. Irrespective of the environment in which you operate, to be the go-to man that everyone comes looking for, you need to do the following:
1. Set your goals on the basis of your identified capability and capacity.
This is what makes the journey to realisation more real to you. And the more real the journey is to you, the more motivated you will be.
2. Research, discover,and identify the 'Hows' of achieving them. What resources do you or do not have? Who around you has such resources that you lack, the support of whom you can then solicit? What do you need to do to get the job done? How can it be done with less waste and more results.'The intellectual challenge of execution is in getting to the heart of an issue through persistent and consistent probing'.
3. Set milestones for the progress of your set plan. There must be deadlines. There must be the commitment on your part to finish an aspect of the project by a set time-and you must keep to it. Doing this successfully has a somewhat psychological effect on you. It makes you lose your fear and self doubt, as you begin to discover the executor in you. It makes you know that you can ,after all, do it!
4. Make contingency plans in anticipation of the unexpected. This is strategic thinking at work.This requires you to see beyond you excitements. It instills in you that discipline of the mind that makes you sensitive to the dynamics of events around you. It makes you appreciate the importance of timely information and the utility of such. You see beyond your nose,and you act as such. Every executor is a strategist.
5. Follow through with discipline and consistency. Discipline get things done. Your stick-ability is put to test from the moment you set the execution process in motion. If you have kept faith with yourself up to step 4, this should be no problem for you, because you would have developed an orientation and character that is malleable. Situations do not deter you. Sudden occurrences do not throw you aback. You set your eyes on the goal,and you go for it. Last week, you were encouraged to hold on. Remember, persistence propels potential to perfection!
TASK FOR THE DAY: Bring out your to-do list, fill it out, and commit to following the execution process. Expect to succeed at it,and you will!
Do your best to get a copy of the book,'Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done' by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan.
Your Partner in Ascent
Isaiah Kumuyi, AOGE
26C8C618
Great One, the extent to which you will see your vision become reality is entirely up to you. It is not up to your level of education. It has nothing to do with your intelligence. In fact, it is possible for one to be brilliant and hardworking but might not be effective by giving priority to getting things done. And that, exactly, is what execution is about: GETTING THINGS DONE! Now, I urge you to do a quick appraisal of yourself. How many uncompleted assignments or projects have you to your name? This dispassionate assessment of yourself and the result(s) you get will reveal to you how much of an executor you are.
In the paragraphs below, I share, with you,steps that can be taken, either to commence your journey to being an executor or to reawaken the executor in you. Irrespective of the environment in which you operate, to be the go-to man that everyone comes looking for, you need to do the following:
1. Set your goals on the basis of your identified capability and capacity.
This is what makes the journey to realisation more real to you. And the more real the journey is to you, the more motivated you will be.
2. Research, discover,and identify the 'Hows' of achieving them. What resources do you or do not have? Who around you has such resources that you lack, the support of whom you can then solicit? What do you need to do to get the job done? How can it be done with less waste and more results.'The intellectual challenge of execution is in getting to the heart of an issue through persistent and consistent probing'.
3. Set milestones for the progress of your set plan. There must be deadlines. There must be the commitment on your part to finish an aspect of the project by a set time-and you must keep to it. Doing this successfully has a somewhat psychological effect on you. It makes you lose your fear and self doubt, as you begin to discover the executor in you. It makes you know that you can ,after all, do it!
4. Make contingency plans in anticipation of the unexpected. This is strategic thinking at work.This requires you to see beyond you excitements. It instills in you that discipline of the mind that makes you sensitive to the dynamics of events around you. It makes you appreciate the importance of timely information and the utility of such. You see beyond your nose,and you act as such. Every executor is a strategist.
5. Follow through with discipline and consistency. Discipline get things done. Your stick-ability is put to test from the moment you set the execution process in motion. If you have kept faith with yourself up to step 4, this should be no problem for you, because you would have developed an orientation and character that is malleable. Situations do not deter you. Sudden occurrences do not throw you aback. You set your eyes on the goal,and you go for it. Last week, you were encouraged to hold on. Remember, persistence propels potential to perfection!
TASK FOR THE DAY: Bring out your to-do list, fill it out, and commit to following the execution process. Expect to succeed at it,and you will!
Do your best to get a copy of the book,'Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done' by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan.
Your Partner in Ascent
Isaiah Kumuyi, AOGE
26C8C618
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