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The 4 Disciplines of Execution

Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals

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The 4 Disciplines of Execution

By: Sean Covey, Chris McChesney, Jim Huling
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 An insightful new work from the multimillion-copy bestselling author Sean Covey and the FranklinCovey organization based on their work with hundreds of thousands of employees and large companies to unveil the essential disciplines proven to help businesses and individuals realize their most important goals.

A publishing phenomenon, Sean Covey and the FranklinCovey organization have become one of the most respected brands in the highly competitive world of thought leadership in business. In his latest work, Covey lays out an unprecedented plan for goal-realization that will revolutionize the way we approach our dreams.

The 4 Disciplines of Execution provides a simple, proven formula for achieving the goals that every individual or organization needs to reach. From Marriott to the U.S. Navy, Covey and his team have worked with more than 200,000 people in hundreds of organizations to improve performance, identifying and honing four secrets of perfect execution: Focus on the Wildly Important; Act on the Lead Measures; Keep a Compelling Scoreboard; and Create a Cadence of Accountability. By allowing teams to separate those urgent tasks that demand attention merely to keep a company alive—called the “whirlwind”—from new, “wildly important” goals that promise to break new ground, these disciplines empower leaders to accomplish what is by far the most difficult aspect of creating results: executing a strategy that requires a change in behavior. Simply put, this is a work that no business, however small or large, can afford to pass up. Career Success Leadership Management Management & Leadership Organisational Behavior Personal Development Personal Success Workplace & Organisational Behavior Business Strategic Planning Process Improvement
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Over recent years I've been on a reading mission. Trying to bootstrap my own performance as well as those teams I'm a member of. While many books have helped and illuminated the way I believe this book to be the best. The foremost reasoning being the synthesis of so many aspects of performance into what are the four disciplines of execution. Simple to explain but with ninja like training and commitment required to master. If you have time to digest one "management" or "performance" book then I would highly recommend The 4 Disciplines of a execution.

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Really enjoyed the book. Learned a lot and can apply the principles. Easy to listen too.

Great book

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well told story to explain and give examples of the use of the 4 disciplines.

powerful framework

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I found the theory presented in the book extremely interesting and I find it intuitively appealing that applying it will give great results.
Can’t wait to try it out.
Well written, easy listen, a lot of real life examples help clarify the practical steps necessary on this journey to implementing a new way of working.
Happy to have read/listened to the book.
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Facinating

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If you can tolerate the comically macho Navy Seals trope vibe the core lessons here are flawless. The four disciplines are; focus, leverage, engagement, and accountability. In practise these look like having a WIG or Wildly Important Goal, acting on lead measures (not lag), use of a compelling scoreboard, and creating a cadence of accountability with weekly WIG meetings.

I loved the acknowledgment of the tension between the daily BAU which the authors call the ‘whirlwind’, and while commitments teammates made to achieving the WIG each week are essential, they are also only a small proportion of their effort. Asking ‘what’s the one thing you will do this week that will move the lead measures of our WIG?’ Is something I’m going to start using immediately as my team already use OKRs. There’s also something about holding people accountable to their commitments that we haven’t been nailing yet and I’m going to start doing more of.

How to Achieve Wildly Important Goals

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