Effective Execution: Building High-Performing Organizations

Contents: Part One: Workplace Effectiveness. 1. Building a nurturing work environment. 2. Building organizational capability. 3. Building organization culture for mindful execution. 4. Building empowerment and mentoring effectiveness. 5. Building an execution environment of perpetual. Part Two: Workforce Effectiveness. 6. Commitment for doing the right thing for the right reason in the right way. 7. Envisioning solutions through the customer's eye. 8. Growing a culture that is mindful of competency improvement. 9. Growing community of practices and a learning organization. 10. Making execution effectiveness flow throughout the organization. Epilogue. Glossary of Terms. Appendix A: SPRUM Checklist to Improve Execution Effectiveness. Appendix B: Case Study: Gap Assessment of COVID-19 Using SPRUM Enablers to the Indian Context.

'[A]t its core, this is a book about organizational development and a thorough and broad-ranging one at that.… Follow Raghav through this book, he will show you the way.'
-Dr Bill Curtis, Fort Worth, Texas
'Raghav writes about the importance of problem-solving by maintaining a solid execution focus; and getting the job done effectively.'
-Commodore Anand Khandekar I.N. (Retd), Pune

Execution effectiveness has remained an unconscious focus, and not the primary focus, as organizations struggle with mediocre execution most of the times as a result of the interplay between unmindful workplace and workforce ineffectiveness. Effective Execution: Building High-Performing Organizations identifies the core foundations on which both workplace and workforce effectiveness must be fostered to make execution 'mindful of waste'.