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Larry Bossidy

American
1935 – 2025
Lawrence Arthur Bossidy was an American businessman and author. He was CEO of AlliedSignal in the 1990s. Before that, he spent over 30 years rising through executive positions at General Electric.
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Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done

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Published in 2002 by Crown Currency and a #1 New York Times bestseller with more than two million copies in print, Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, and Charles Burck makes a forceful case that bridging the gap between strategy and results — not vision-setting alone — is the true work of leadership, and it remains one of the most widely cited business books of the past two decades.

Reviewed May 2, 2026

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Patrick M. Lencioni

Business & Economics
Patrick M. Lencioni’s The Five Dysfunctions of a Team complements Bossidy’s focus on the people process by examining team-level breakdowns and how to repair them.
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Jim Collins

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Jim Collins's Good to Great forensically dissects outperforming companies through case studies, analyzing the internal disciplines that separate great organizations from the merely good.
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Good to Great
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Kim Scott

Business & Economics
Kim Scott's Radical Candor offers a precise, actionable framework for the honest performance conversations and direct dialogue highlighted by Larry Bossidy.
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Radical Candor: Fully Revised
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Daniel Kahneman

Business & Economics
Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow reveals the cognitive biases behind poor choices, uncovering the mental systems that affect the people decisions central to Bossidy's work.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
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Sun Tzu

Business & Economics
Sun Tzu’s The Art of War shifts from concrete corporate leadership processes to strategic, ancient philosophical aphorisms.
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The Art of War
Donella H. Meadows

Donella H. Meadows

Business & Economics
In Thinking in Systems, Donella H. Meadows analyzes why organizations and complex entities succeed or fail, offering a broad mental model beyond corporate C-suite execution.
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