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The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals

The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals

By Sean Covey, Jim Huling, Chris McChesney

Audio available 9 minute read Published Apr 1, 2016

What you'll learn

We are excellent at holding diffuse ambitions, but what about developing goals and executing those goals successfully? For most, the results are mixed at best. Three experts in the fields of business and leadership identify some of the common blocks to strong execution and provide a framework called 4DX that helps people and organizations improve their track records—while enhancing performance and team chemistry along the way. These strategies are applicable whether you run a small startup or a multinational corporation.

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  1. • What you'll learn
  2. 1 The Whirlwind of daily tasks will steal your time and energy unless you separate the important from the urgent.
  3. 2 More goals, more problems.
  4. 3 Spend more time focusing on measures of input than measures of output.
  5. 4 Teams perform better when they are keeping score.
  6. 5 Ongoing execution will fizzle out without weekly accountability meetings.

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