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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
Narrated by: Sean Covey, Chris McChesney, Jim Huling
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An insightful new work from the multimillion-copy best-selling 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.

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©2012 FranklinCovey Co. All rights reserved. (P)2012 Simon & Schuster, Inc. All rights reserved.
Career Success Forecasting & Strategic Planning Leadership Management Management & Leadership Organisational Behaviour Personal Development Personal Success Workplace & Organisational Behaviour Strategic Planning Process Improvement

Critic Reviews

" The 4 Disciplines of Execution offers more than theories for making strategic organizational change. The authors explain not only the 'what' but also 'how' effective execution is achieved. They share numerous examples of companies that have done just that, not once, but over and over again. This is a book that every leader should read!" (Clayton Christensen, Professor, Harvard Business School, and author of The Innovator’s Dilemma)
All stars
Most relevant
Was worth the Saturday to listen to it all. Execution with workable models is priceless

Worth It

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This book could change the way you do business as it has for me by making my goals clearer and more impactful to the end result. Highly recommend to anyone who wants to improve systematically.

Excellent.

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I’ll be 4DXing with my staff before the week is out! Excited for where this can take us. 4DX is a simple concept, but beautifully developed and presented.

Simple. Perfect. Necessary.

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A must read for any person wanting to create lasting change in their life by influencing themselves and other people to apply leveraged focus on the things that really matter.
Whether you're an entrepreneur, a team leader, an employee, a homemaker, a student - this book is a worthwhile read!

Insightful and practical

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I am blown away by how simple and clearly this book presented the WIG and lead metric ideas. One of my best reads this year.

As a result my questions and actions as a leader at work, home and in the community have so much more impact.

Lead metrics for life

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great easy plan to moving to excellent results.
now is the implementation plan.
bring it on.

Easy listen

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Loved the narrator, he really kept it engaging. I will be implementing these disciplines into the organisation.

Great book

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loved it. An excellent book detailing how to implement things in a repeatable and sustainable manner

AWESOME

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Loved the principles & concepts in this book. I will definitely try them out in out organisation. Can't wait to try

Wow! A must in any business

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Would you try another book written by the authors or narrated by the narrators?

only if it was relevant for individuals and personal goal achieving

Would you recommend The 4 Disciplines of Execution to your friends? Why or why not?

its aimed for big business

What did you like about the performance? What did you dislike?

The use of terminology like WIGS, Lag goals and lead goals to describe basic goal setting characteristics - why add a layer of complexity or confusion. Just call them what they are.

Any additional comments?

I learned for example not to make the weight loss target the goal but rather make the calorie counting each day the goal. That makes sense, but thats all i got out of it for me

Good if your an enterprise

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