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Flawless Execution: Use the Techniques and Systems of America's Fighter Pilots to Perform at Your Peak and Win the Battles of the Business World

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If you haven't had the opportunity to experience an Afterburner seminar yet, this book links you into their entire process top-down, from strategy to the flawless execution model to the people who carry out the mission. As head of Training for my organization, I was particularly interested in the section Murph dedicated to training. In the business world we don't place enough emphasis on the importance of training our people - in the military they never place someone in an environment they are not prepared to be in. Training seems to always get sacrificed because we're too busy carrying out tasks to get pulled away. Murph speaks on training to achieve a (specific) Desired Learning Objective, seeing how its done and then doing it - learning from experience. In the corporate world there is much we can learn from military processes. Flawless Execution is a process that can be applied to every business objective - its asks the questions: Did we plan right? Communicate to our people clearly? Give our people the tools they need to execute their job? And, did we capture lessons learned so we can sharpen the saw next time? It's a powerful tool we're applying in my organization with much success. I just hope our competitors don't read this book!

Frank, practical advice with a no nonsense approach...just like you'd expect from guys that operate in a space where coming in second isn't an option.

This is a no BS look at how to improve any organization's ability to kick the competition's butt. You won't find "theoretical" discussions from a group of "academics." No charts and graphs. No fancy formulas. Just dozens of ideas that anyone with a desire to improve can implement. The "debrief" section and advice Murph provides has literally changed the way we operate in our company.

Read it...and you'll understand why the USAF is the best in the world. More importantly, you'll see how their training methods can make you better. I couldn't recommend it more highly.

This is a great book that revolves around project management and planning. I'm in IT and read this book last year. I still refer to it monthly and use the principles I learned in the book in process planning and day-to-day management.

This book is an excellent recap of military strategy and tactic turned civilian. Murphy presents clear ideas on how these processes have been adapted for use in corporate life.

Every CEO needs to read this book and make it required reading for his/her executives. The book is an easy read and gives multiple examples of how the processes can and are being used by Fortune 500 companies.

I found this book a refreshing read, building on previous works in the field of management by the author.

The overlaying of the principals and process of military preparation and execution of assignments does have application in the business world. Maybe not completely - but significantly.

Reading this book allowed me to reflect on processes and effectiveness in a professional services firm which I head, and make a couple of worthwhile adjustments which we have carried forward with success.

I always think if you can take just a couple of things from a business book and apply those over the long term you have done well. I believe there are a number of such lessons and approaches in this text that have real world business application.

Well done to the authors.

This book has provided some incredible insight regarding some challenges that many companies face when trying to execute a mission or business plan. It's give me some great ideas on how to improve my company and help my employees execute thier "missions". I've used the book as the basis of some of my blog posts at [...].

The book is an excellent read for someone learning to set goals in striving towards the big picture...

I first read this in the airport waiting for a connecting flight - I could not put it down. When I got home I immediately bought the book for all my people at work. This is worth more than any price if it is truely put into action - a must read for the serious business person.

This is a very good book. Great for day to day as well as projected planning.

Just finished Business School and I think Flawless Execution should have been required reading! It gave me a clear path to connect my big picture strategy (both professional and personal) to things I can work on everyday. I would definitely recommend this book to anyone and will make sure it is a part of every organization I work with in the future.