Larry Bossidy has 4 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 4 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 10 ratings. The most-rated is Execution.
Execution
Summary
The audio that shows how to get the job done and deliver results...whether you're running an entire company or in your first management job. Larry Bossidy is one of the world's most acclaimed CEOs, with a track record for delivering results. Ram Charan is a legendary adviser to senior executives and boards of directors, a man with unparalleled insight into why some companies are successful and others are not. Together they've pooled their knowledge and experience into one guide on how to close the gap between results promised and results delivered. The discipline of execution means understanding how to link together people, strategy, and operations, the three core processes of every business. Leading these processes is the real job of running a business, not formulating a "vision" and leaving the work of carrying it out to others. Bossidy and Charan show the importance of being deeply and passionately engaged in an organization and why robust dialogues about people, strategy, and operations result in a business based on intellectual honesty and realism. The leader's most important job - selecting and appraising people - is one that should never be delegated. As a CEO, Larry Bossidy personally makes the calls to check references for key hires. Why? With the right people in the right jobs, there's a leadership gene pool that conceives and selects strategies that can be executed. People then work together to create a strategy building block by building block, a strategy in sync with the realities of the marketplace, the economy, and the competition. Once the right people and strategy are in place, they are then linked to an operating process that results in the implementation of specific programs and actions and that assigns accountability. This kind of effective operating process goes way beyond the typical budget exercise that looks into a rearview mirror to set its goals. It puts reality behind the numbers and is where the rubber meets the road.
©2002 Crown Business (P)2002 Random House, Inc.
Harvard Business Review, March 2001
Summary
From the pages of Harvard Business Review hear former AlliedSignal CEO Larry Bossidy on "The Job No CEO Should Delegate," Harvard Med School Dean Paul F. Levy on "The Nut Island Effect: When Good Teams Go Wrong," and more. These articles, which originally appeared in the March 2001 issue of Harvard Business Review, are offered in audio form exclusively through Audible.
©2001 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, All Rights Reserved (P)2001 Audible, Inc.
Confronting Reality
Summary
Confronting Reality will change the way you think about and run your business. It is the first book that shows how to connect the big picture of the new era of business with the nitty-gritty of what to do about it. Through a completely new way to understand and use the business model as the primary tool for confronting reality, you'll know sooner rather than later whether your fundamental business premise is under assault, where your best opportunities lie, what you should change and what you should leave alone, and how to realistically plan the future of your business. The fundamentals of how a business makes money are being rapidly and permanently altered by sweeping structural changes. With their extraordinary depth and breadth of experience, Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan are the ideal guides so you can get things right in this challenging, radically changed world. They start by showing you how to understand the most fundamental element of any business: whether you can realistically make the money you hope to in the game you're playing. Bossidy and Charan show how to use the business model to develop a robust, reality-based process for thinking about the specifics of your business in a holistic way. They show how to tie together the financial targets you must meet, the external realities you face, and internal activities such as strategy development, operating tactics, and selection and development of people. Through the lens of the business model, as well as the skillful use of initiatives and development of people with the right leadership characteristics, you'll see how Robert Nardelli at Home Depot, Michael Wisbrun at KLM, Joseph Tucci at EMC, and John Chambers at Cisco confronted reality. Whether they faced crisis or opportunity, all made the right kinds of changes through a combination of business savvy and business model thinking.
©2004 Larry Bossidy, LLC, and Ram Charan (P)2004 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.
Harvard Business Review, April 2007
Summary
In a short article from "Forethought", Gary Carini and Bill Townsend offer some tips for getting your employees to come forward with strong and specific ideas. Then, Larry Bossidy, the former CEO of AlliedSignal and Honeywell, lays out what he expects of his direct reports and what they can expect from him. Then, James Hackett explains what you need to do to prepare for the perfect product launch, based on his successes and failures as CEO of Steelcase. The third full-length article suggests ways you can do your human due diligence when considering a company for a merger or acquisition. You'll also hear executive summaries of the remaining articles for the April 2007 issue of the Harvard Business Review.
©2007 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College, All Rights Reserved (P)2007 Audible Inc.