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What do you want me to do? This question is the enduring management issue, a perennial problem that Stephen Bungay shows has an old solution that is counter-intuitive and yet common sense. The Art of Action is a thought-provoking and fresh look at how managers can turn planning into execution, and execution into results.
Drawing on his experience as a consultant, senior manager and a highly respected military historian, Stephen Bungay takes a close look at the nineteenth-century Prussian Army, which built its agility on the initiative of its highly empowered junior officers, to show business leaders how they can build more effective, productive organizations. Based on a theoretical framework which has been tested in practice over 150 years, Bungay shows how the approach known as ‘mission command’ has been applied in businesses as diverse as pharmaceuticals and F1 racing today.
The Art of Action is scholarly but engaging, rigorous but pragmatic, and shows how common sense can sometimes be surprising.
ASIN : B01HPVHLHG
Publisher : John Murray Business
Accessibility : Learn more
Publication date : 16 Feb. 2011
Edition : Illustrated
Language : English
File size : 2.0 MB
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 306 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-1857884647
Page Flip : Enabled
Best Sellers Rank: 63,337 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store) 181 in Business Management & Leadership 339 in Business & Economic History 342 in Military History (Kindle Store)
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