Bossidy, the veteran chairman of Honeywell, was struck that among the shelves of business books published each year on strategy and leadership, none focused on the subject that obsesses successful executives: the essential grunt work of delivering results. So with consultant Ram Charan, Bossidy wrote Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done (Crown Business). Bossidy discussed the book with TIME's Andrea Sachs:
Q: How important was execution to your career?
A: I'm an impatient person, and I get more satisfaction from seeing things get done than I do about philosophizing or building sand castles. Many people regard execution as detail work...
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