I got a digital version of this book via NetGalley.

What I liked about the book:
- It says all the right things to say in a book åbout culture and execution.
- As leadership is critical for both execution and building a culture of execution, the book has good nuggests about leadership overall.

What I would have done differently:
- Been a bit more subtler about selling the services offered by the company owned by the authors.
- Either provided more concrete & detailed examples (than they have in the book) about how their clients benefitted from the processes (trademarked) created by the authors in their business.
- Gone atleast one more level deeper on both culture and what driving execution!

Overall, I would say, this book ticks all the right boxes but never dives deep enough for us to really gain new insights, which I believe the potential definitely lies.

A lot of books I read either cover how to create a great culture, or they cover how to get results. Not enough books cover both.

The Execution Culture is a refreshing change. Highlighting the important facets of creating a strong culture, aligning to a few core values, for example, but also talks about how to create the necessary accountability within that culture.

Facing in to difficult issues such as knowing who has the core values, and more importantly, who doesn't. Meaning some people will no doubt leave the organisation.

The Execution Culture is spattered throughout with real life examples that I am sure will resonate with many leaders.

Execution culture will teach you about the importance of action when you have an idea. In fact business consists of 5% ideas and of 95% of execution of those ideas. President Thomas Edison once said, “Vision without execution is hallucination.” - this is the key to any start for success together with transformational and not transactional leadership style. Smart companies of today are equivalent to strong because they are able to build teams who make the ideas execution possible.