Boringly written, self-promoting and hero-worshipping. Badly researched and full of plattitudes. Well, when that is said, it has some good points too. It is one of very few books on Execution, but it fails to live up to the promise of the title, as it contains very little advice. But it contains a simple to memorise, three point structure (strategy, operations, people), which is not really rocket science, but may seem so to some CEOs that I know.

Charan's parts can be better read in his other books and their Jack Welch worshipping can be annoying at times.

All in all, it's not really bad, but mediocre at best, especially after all the hype surronding the title, but I should have understood this when I read the introduction to their second edition ("updated for the new times", wtf?).

You can safely skip this one.