Leading Strategy Execution: How to Engage Employees and Implement Your Strategies

Having a good strategy isn't enough to guarantee a company's success - executives and managers need to ensure that their strategies are implemented correctly throughout the company, and that all staff are on board. Leading Strategy Execution demonstrates to senior executives ways in which they can successfully enthuse their employees so that they willingly implement essential company strategies

This motivational new title begins by explaining how to engage and energize your employees so that they really want to implement your strategy, and they accept their role and contribution towards making the strategy a success.

Leading Strategy Execution goes on to illustrate ways in which executives can teach employees to change habits, and to apply the new ways of thinking that are required to turn today's new strategy into tomorrow's business culture.

The final section of the book concludes by revealing to executives how to energize and employ the middle managers within the business, so that they are focused on the execution of crucial company strategies, and become ambassadors of change rather than instruments of inertia.

Including tools, "how to" checklists and real-life examples, Leading Strategy Execution is essential reading for busy executives, and takes a dynamic approach to the topic of strategy execution through employee engagement.

Leading Strategy Execution is an accessible new title which clearly spells out the actions needed to be taken by executives, in order to ensure that strategy implementation takes place throughout the company.

Offering hands-on, practical advice and compelling commercial insights, Leading Strategy Execution provides numerous recommendations and tips for success, including

Complete with tools, "how to" checklists and real-life examples, Leading Strategy Execution identifies the skills and behaviours needed to successfully enthuse and engage employees.

The authors of Leading Strategy Execution are managing partners from Korda & Partners, an international strategy implementation consultancy. Their work consists of assisting world-class companies such as Microsoft, L'Oreal and Tesco on major projects including strategic transformations, global new product launches, major reorganizations, and building new organizational capabilities such as customer focus, employee engagement, innovation, sales excellence and lean mindset. They combine their personal work experience with thorough research of the latest management thinking and insights gained from a number of recent international surveys undertaken by their "Leaders for Excellence" benchmarking forum.

Christine Antunes is an NLP Master Practitioner and has graduated in economics from the French Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers. She is in charge of managing strategic projects involving crucial communication aspects.
Christophe Korda is an engineer from the University of Orsay and his background is in industrial transformation. He looks after initiatives in which employee alignment on strategic initiatives and new processes is a key success factor.
Philippe Korda has a degree from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris as well as a Master's in law. Already an award-winning author in strategy and management, he works on strategy execution issues all over the world.
Suresh Mistry holds an MBA from the London Business School and he is currently head of the UK office for Korda & Partners. He specializes in building skills and strategic competencies within large organizations.