“Can do!”

US Naval Mobile Construction Battalion’s

(Seabees) motto

Excellence Audit “Self” #4

I am highly skilled and confident in my key work/execution skills.

“Execution is strategy.”

- Fred Malek, Exec Assistant to US Presidents Richard Nixon and George H.W. Bush.

Importance of Success Factors by Various “Gurus”:

Estimates by Tom Peters

Strategy Systems Passion/ Execution Leadership

Porter 45% 20 20 15 Drucker 35% 30 15 20 Bennis 20% 20 35 25 Peters 15% 20 30 35

“Execution is a

systematic process

of rigorously discussing hows and whats, tenaciously following through, and ensuring accountability.”

Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan, Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done

A man approached JP Morgan, held up an envelope, and said, “Sir, in my hand I hold a guaranteed formula for

success, which I will gladly sell you for $25,000.”

“Sir,” JP Morgan replied, “I do not know what is in the envelope. However if you show me, and I like it, I give you my word as a gentleman that I will pay you what you ask.”

The man agreed to the terms, and handed over the

envelope. JP Morgan opened it, and extracted a single sheet of paper. He gave it one look, a mere glance,

then handed the piece of paper back to the gent.

And paid him the agreed-upon $25,000 …

1. Every morning, write a list of the things that need to be done that day.

2. Do them.

Source: Hugh MacLeod/tompeters.com/NPR

The Leader’s Seven Essential Behaviors

* Know your people and your business * Insist on realism * Set clear goals and priorities * Follow through * Reward the doers * Expand people’s capabilities * Know yourself Source: Larry Bossidy & Ram Charan, Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done

“Effective prototyping may be

the most valuable core competence an innovative organization

can hope to have.”

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Michael Schrage, author, Serious Fun

“Do it. Fix it. Try it.”

Tom Peters/Business Week

(Principal #1/first publication of “Attributes of Excellence”)

“He was not afraid

to fail.”

David Glass, former CEO, Walmart (talking to Tom Peters on Sam Walton’s principal success secret.)

It is amazing how few oil people really understand that

you only find oil if you drill

wells.

Source: The Hunters, by John Masters, Canadian Oil & Gas Wildcatter

Workskills Excellence

Will your next presentation

give more time

to the process, details and politics of “implementing” than to the “analysis of the problem/opportunity?”

Tom Peters

Never forget implementation folks. In our work it’s what I

call the ‘missing 98 percent’.

Al McDonald Mayor of North Bay, Ontario

“Can do!”

US Naval Mobile Construction Battalion’s

(Seabees) motto