In a cover story for a recent issue of Harvard Business Review, Professor John Kotter described a new type of organization that combines speed of execution with agility to seize new opportunities quickly.

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Tata said that not even the army or commandoes who ultimately took over the offensive were prepared for the level of organization and execution that the attackers seemed to have put into their plan.

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They have the ability to drive the operational side of execution, so that the organization meets the quarterly objectives, while simultaneously giving ample time, attention and execution focus to innovations that are coming into the market.

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More importantly, as Commissioner of the league, is it a rightful execution of power to fine an organization six-figures because a coach decides to take action that does not overtly violate a league rule?

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One of the great achievements of the modern organization was disciplined execution with scalability.

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My own recent work in radical management distills, builds on and extends these principles, practices and values so that any organization can now achieve the elusive combination of disciplined execution and continuous innovation.

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News of the execution came on the same day that the International Labour Organization (ILO) said that laws were needed "urgently" to give greater protection to domestic workers.

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What they came up with was an organization with a clear strategy, where everyone is urgent and aligned toward a common goal, and where execution of those strategies flowed smoothly with all of the management processes you would expect in place.

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