Done Right : How Tomorrow's Top Leaders Get Stuff Done

Work is getting whipsawed. Teams are geographically distributed, digital strategies are shattering organizational hierarchies, competition is multi-directional, and digital natives are overturning long-time company norms. Modern work needs new masters to rise up and lead.Done Right pulls from over thirty original interviews with experienced leaders across a variety of industries to show how tomorrow’s leaders can effectively navigate the modern workforce.It explores how to:• Motivate your team to achieve the work you lead• Determine the best next step for every situation• Learn where to focus your time and attentionIn addition, Done Right provides practical exercises so you can immediately make this knowledge actionable. The most valuable skill in the future is the ability to get stuff done. What are you waiting for? Get it done — right.

Alex Shootman, President andCEO at Workfront, brings a quarter century of leadership stemming from hiscareer with technology companies ranging from IBM, BMC Software, and Vignette,to modern SaaS-based companies like Apptio and Eloqua. Along the way, Alexestablished a reputation for "Getting it Done" and "Doing it Right" inhigh-pressure situations.
 
Over the past two plus decades,Alex has seen first-hand how today's technology can be disruptive in the modernworkplace. Teams are geographically distributed, strategies are shatteringorganizational hierarchies, competition is multi-directional, and digitalnatives are overturning company norms. Modern work needs innovative managers torise up and lead.
 
These changes in modern workinspired the genesis of Done Right, Alex's second book, which pulls fromover 30 original interviews with leaders from a cross-section of industries todemonstrate how tomorrow's leaders can effectively navigate the modernworkforce. Done Right explores how to motivate teams, determine the bestnext steps for every situation, and learn where to focus time and attention.
 
Alex's first book is theco-authored Revenue Engine, which details techniques and tools thatcompanies can harness to grow revenue and profit. When not leading the way intothe future,Alex can be found trying to convince his legs that they really don't hurt on aroad bike, admiring the view from a 14er in Colorado, or breath­ing bubblesdown on a reef in his home state of Hawaii.