The Art of Action: How Leaders Close the Gaps Between Plans, Actions and Results

The 10th Anniversary Edition of the Leadership Classic

The  surprisingly common sense approach to leading a global company, based  on a theoretical framework first used by the nineteenth-century Prussian  Army.

For over a decade the approach known as 'mission command'  has been taught at the leading HULT Ashridge International Business  School and has been applied in transforming businesses as diverse as  pharmaceuticals and F1 racing.

What do you want me to do? This  question is the enduring management issue, a perennial problem that  Stephen Bungay shows has an old solution that is counter-intuitive and  yet highly practical. The Art of Action is a thought-provoking and fresh look at how managers can turn planning into execution, and execution into results.

Drawing  on his experience as a consultant, senior manager and a highly  respected military historian, Stephen Bungay takes a close look at the  army which built its agility on the initiative of its highly empowered  junior officers, to show business leaders how they can build more  effective, productive organizations.