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The 4 Disciplines of Execution
- Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals
- Narrated by: Sean Covey
- Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins
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Publisher's Summary
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. It unveils 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
- Create a Cadence of Accountability
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio.
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- Melissa T.
- 2016-04-08
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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- Svetlana Gritsienko
- 2018-12-20
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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- William
- 2012-07-23
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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- janmaskew
- 2012-05-23
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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- Brian K
- 2018-09-07
Keep it simple..
It's harder than you think. Strategy is great, but execution is what gets you paid.
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- Reviewer#9
- 2015-04-06
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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- Daniel K.
- 2012-09-05
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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- Kristen
- 2012-05-09
Must read!
Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?
This is a great book that simplifies the very complex topic of improving execution.
Any additional comments?
I'm buying this book for my team!
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- Jared Collins
- 2019-09-01
Outstanding
Too large a divide stands between strategy and execution. This book bridges the gap marvellously.
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- Grant Foster
- 2019-05-28
great for getting it done
vision for a company is so important but with out execution it's only a dream.