5 Steps to Breakthrough Performance in Your Organization By Marcia W. Blenko, Michael C. Mankins and Paul RogersHarvard Business Review Press, $29.95, 146 pages
Now more than ever, the companies that can make and execute sound business decision will be the winners, while the others dither on decisions and then fail to implement them once they're identified. In Decide & Deliver , a trio of Bain & Company executives—Marcia Blenko, Michael Mankins and Paul Rogers—draw on the firm's extensive research and know-how to lay out a simple, five-step process for improving a company's decision-making and executing ability.
|The steps include: how to assess your own decision effectiveness, how to ensure success and how to build an organization that decides and delivers. If a firm can master this process—and the book provides real-life examples from Ford, Intel, MetLife and others—it will become a nimble and decisive company. The result? A company that not only outperforms competitors, but is also a great place to work.
