Mark Morgan – författare

Base your business decisions on up-to-the-minute "snapshots" of your company's performance. Because they can be customized to track indicators specific to your organization's success, Performance Scorecards are a busy manager's best resource for quickly aligning strategy and promoting behaviors that lead to desired results. Use them to gauge sales, employee satisfaction, quality-whatever factors most influence your company's progress. You'll be able to make better, more informed decisions, guide and manage shifts in business direction, and keep every employee focused on important business goals. Through their fictional account of manager Vince Sharp's use of the scorecards, Chang and Morgan show readers exactly how the process works. .

A young man searching for a life that demanded everything from him.What followed was life inside one of the world's most mythologised fighting forces — the French Foreign Legion.From brutal training grounds to deployments across Africa, Mackenzie experienced the Legion beyond the legend: the discipline, the camaraderie, the exhaustion — and the moments when life and death balanced on a knife's edge. Among men from more than a hundred nations, he trained, marched, parachuted and fought, discovering how modern warfare is shaped as much by politics and perception as by bullets.Told with clarity and restraint, Legionnaire Mackenzie — Harmony in Modern Warfare offers a rare, unvarnished look inside the Legion: its hardships, its humour, its dangers, and its strange, enduring pull.A compelling memoir for readers who want to understand what service in the Foreign Legion tastes like — from the first step through the gates to what remains when the uniform comes off.

Why do businesses consistently fail to execute their competitive strategies? Because leaders don't identify and invest in the full range of projects and programs required to align the organization with its strategy. Moreover, even when strategy makers do break their plans down into doable chunks, they seldom work with project leaders to prioritize strategic investments and assure that needed resources are applied in priority order. And they often neglect to revise the strategic portfolio to fit the demands of a dynamic environment, or to stay connected to strategic projects through completion, as new products, services, skills and capabilities are transferred into operations. In Executing Your Strategy, Mark Morgan, Raymond Levitt, and William Malek present six imperatives that enable you to do the right strategic projects--and do those projects right.And it is no accident that the six imperatives combine to create the acronym INVEST: Ideation--Clarify and communicate purpose, identity and long range intention; Nature--Develop alignment between strategy, structure and culture based on ideation; Vision--Create clear goals and metrics aligned to strategy and guided by ideation--Engagement--Do the right projects based on the strategy through portfolio management; Synthesis: Do projects and programs right, in alignment with portfolio; and Transition: Move the project and program outputs into operations where benefit is realized. Full of intriguing company examples and practical advice, this crucial new resource shows you how to make strategy happen in your organization.