Liked abridged version

Good read. Great concepts. Glad I went for the abridged version. couldn't imagine a need for 5 more hours of this book in the full version.

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Specific instructions regarding weekly planning

It's an excellent brief book.

The main idea of the book:
Pick 1-2 wildly essential goals, and focus on them. Don't work on several things simultaneously.

Ideas
1) There're 20 % efforts, levers if you will in any process. We should define that sort of shots that produce 80% results
2) Visual displaying data about the score you gained is essential.
This scoreboard must be as simple as a soccer scoreboard.
3) Visibility drives accountability
4) Results drive engagement
5) A manager should create a weekly meeting when every responsible person reports about the current progress. Everyone should choose only 1-2 most important things they can do to move forward the score.
6) Weekly commitments (2-3) must represent a specific deliverable, and it must influence the lead measures.
7) Profoundly impacted engagement has the following qualities: - the more specific the commitment, the higher accountability (when what, and what is the outcome (deliverable)) - it's aligned to moving the scoreboard.

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Excellent information

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Covey does it again! Great insight and useful templates to put together a real program for my team to work on their wildly important goals. I was able to put this to actual practice with my team and set standards for following up on our most important issues we face to make our company and team work more efficiently.

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Great book if you have a hard time setting goals

If you could sum up The 4 Disciplines of Execution in three words, what would they be?

Truly very helpful.

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I love how they go into detail to help you get started in getting your team on board with these ideas. Very helpful if your teams have been struggling to attain certain goals.

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Keep it simple..

It's harder than you think. Strategy is great, but execution is what gets you paid.

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The management book Aristotle would have written.

Lots of really good uncommon common sense. it's interesting chiefly because following these principles is the only way I've ever really gotten things done. whether in high school or early on working with teams.
when I'd been successful I'd accidentally followed these principles.

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Good start but falls off in step 4

I liked everything they wrote about setting your wildly important goals and the techniques to measure those goals but it falls off in the final execution.

Basically, their strategy for meeting your goal in the face of everything else you're doing (the whirlwind as they call it) was to tell your staff that it is important and they should meet their commitments regardless of what is happening in their whirlwind.

But they give absolutely no solutions or even suggestions on how to manage the things competing for your staff's attention. Step 4 boils down to "tell your staff to do more".

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Must read!

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This is a great book that simplifies the very complex topic of improving execution.

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I'm buying this book for my team!

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Outstanding

Too large a divide stands between strategy and execution. This book bridges the gap marvellously.

great for getting it done

vision for a company is so important but with out execution it's only a dream.