In the year 2000, forty CEOs of the top 200 companies on the Fortune 500 list were fired or forced to resign. That's twenty-percent of the most powerful business leaders in our country. Why the high level of turnover for these experienced, highly educated business leaders? In many cases, shareholders recognized disparity between the results promised by these leaders and the results delivered by their organizations. What was the missing element for many of these displaced CEOs? They failed to practice the art of Business Execution. Business Execution is about getting things done. The best operational strategies in the world are not worth the paper they are written on if they are not carried out. By implementing a system of questioning, analysis and follow-through, business execution is what meshes strategy with reality, aligns teams with goals, and helps organizations achieve results. It links the three critical elements of every business: people, strategy, and operations. This three-course series, "Business Execution," will help you learn about the principals of business execution. It will give you the foundations you need to create an execution culture in your workplace. Whether you're a senior executive or manager of a small division, "Business Execution" will show you how to get the job done and deliver results. The first course in this series, "Foundations for Business Execution," describes the art of execution and the ways organizations and customers benefit when a company adopts an execution culture. The second course, "Creating an Execution Culture," describes the role of the leader in an execution culture and changes to your organization's social fabric necessary to create a true execution culture. Finally, the third course, "Execution in Action" describes the powerful transformations that occur when organizations execute effectively.