It's Not What You Say...It's What You Do : How Following Through at Every Level Can Make or Break Your Company

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Summary: Too much accountability, How can that be?
Review: A must for managers, CEO's, and business entrepreneurials in 2005. "It's not what you say, It's what you do" is a compelling and unique read detailing new ideas to ensure follow through makes, not breaks your company. Using case studies from global organisations, Laurence Haughton paints a step by step picture to implement perfect follow through at all levels of the organisation. There's a warning for contemporary management thinkers, and those into excessive empirical measurements,there can be too much accountability! Building block four outlines individual initiative and explains how there's a fine line between enough, and too much accountability. Perhaps today's almost universal panacea of individual accountability is already showing signs of weakness. This book is a comprehensive manual of exciting ideas including the importance of a clear direction, the right people, who buy in, and individual initiative. This tantalizing read is compelling and highly recommended.

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Summary: Destined to be a bestseller
Review: Liked the writing style--the author uses real-life examples to support easy-to-understand principles/building blocks to achieving success on business initiatives. If you liked "Good To Great," you will enjoy this one, especially with respect to ways to get the right people on the bus. There are practical tips on how to counteract the CAVE people in a company (Citizens Against Virtually Everything) and they have already proven helpful. Like the previous book he co-authored, this one should also be a bestseller.