Has this happened to you? You get hired into a new position or get
transferred into a new department, and experience uncertainty of what
your job really entails. Or, your boss just expects you to pick up
from where the last person left off? Have you ever joined a new company
in a similar post where your boss assumes you know the rules, but
you don’t and you feel uncomfortable asking your new boss to
give you a detailed account of your new position?
Execution is a systematic process of rigorously following through,
and ensuring accountability. It includes making assumptions about
the business environment, assessing the organization’s capabilities,
linking strategy to operations and the people who are going to implement
the strategy, synchronizing those people and their various disciplines,
and linking rewards to outcomes. It also includes mechanisms for changing
assumptions as the environment changes and upgrading the company’s
capabilities to meet the challenges of an ambitious strategy. Detailed
Execution gives all employees a detailed job description that defines:
Your role responsibility All the tasks related to the roles
you execute Who receives your reports as well
as who you send reports to The key messages to include in your
reports What value you add to your company An execution check list of what you
do on all your assignments A systematic way of exposing reality
and acting on it
Your role responsibility