From the library
The Art of Action
Stephen Bungay, 2011
In one paragraph
Perhaps the best business book I've ever read: analyzes leadership into its components and failures to adapt -- and how to avoid them. von Clausewitz's On War reformulated in practical terms for business. Highly recommended.
Where this sits in the operating system
Systems Over Goals
Focus & Essentialism
People & Relationships
Systems Over Goals
Key insights
Three gaps: knowledge, alignment, effects. Most organisations respond to each with more detail, which widens all three.
Directed opportunism: specify the intent and the boundaries, then let people decide the method.
Briefing should end with the subordinate restating the intent in their own words. If they cannot, the plan does not exist yet.
Recognise it early
The failure and the correction sit side by side deliberately. Read the left column asking whether any of it is already true of you.
Over-specifying plans
Centralized bottlenecks
Too many metrics
Trust deficits
Infrequent feedback
The same idea, argued differently
Julie Zhuo
Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer
Peter Drucker
Ryan Deiss
The full breakdown
Before you close this
Naming the specific moment you will act roughly doubles the odds you do.
Reference
- Author
- Stephen Bungay
- Published
- 2011
- Category
- Business
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