Excellent execution and a culture of commitment

GIVING engineers an opportunity to participate and make choices that are public and visible helps a leader to build a culture of commitment. In an earlier article, I noted that "Execution is the link between a strategy and its successful implementation" (Martinich 2014). In their book, Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done, Bossidy and Charan (2011) say that "Execution has to be a part of a company\´s strategy and its goals. It is the missing link between aspirations and results." And an organization\´s leader creates the culture that will foster excellent execution or thwart it. In order to be successful at execution, an organization must have a culture that will support it. Organizational culture has many aspects, among them: accountability (or the lack of it), decision-making style, level of risk taking, level of responsiveness to issues, shared assumptions, and the way people behave. Today we\´ll focus on one of the facets of culture, that of commitment.