1. Mastering strategy execution

By reading this book to understand the causes of strategy-execution failures and remedies, individuals and leaders at all levels of an organization can better understand their role and contribution to its success. It has been assumed that the executives do strategy for far too long, and execution is for everyone else to figure out.

Getting Shit Done is a book designed to be a comprehensive guide on understanding what it takes to break strategy down into meaningful milestones for people at all levels of the organization, not just executives. The structure follows an unconventional path to help readers understand the critical ingredients for success. Instead of talking about what executives at Apple or Microsoft supposedly did, this book seeks to bring new energy and interest to the subject by exploring strategy-execution throughout our shared history and various cultures.

While this book is not the first to explore the disconnect between the formulation of strategy and execution, many books before have a fatal flaw- they talk about what other people must do to make things happen. In a nutshell, too many other books focus the wrong message on the wrong people.