The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals

Turn overwhelming daily chaos into consistent organizational breakthroughs

Chris McChesney, Sean Covey & Jim Huling

2012

8 Key Insights

About This Book

Every day, urgent tasks distract you from your most important goals, draining teams of energy and focus. The 4 Disciplines of Execution shows you how to break that cycle, with a proven system used by hundreds of organizations worldwide. You’ll learn to zero in on one or two Wildly Important Goals, act on the high-leverage behaviors that predict success, keep a simple scoreboard that the whole team owns, and establish a weekly rhythm of personal accountability. Apply these disciplines and watch your people go from scrambling in the whirlwind to winning, week after week.

About the Author

Chris McChesney is a Global Practice Leader at FranklinCovey and co-creator of the 4DX methodology. Sean Covey oversees FranklinCovey’s global solutions and partnerships, and Jim Huling brings three decades of leadership and consulting experience to coaching teams in flawless execution. Together they’ve guided hundreds of organizations to extraordinary growth.

Biggest Takeaway

• Dramatically improve execution by focusing on fewer, more impactful goals. • Translate big objectives into controllable, predictive actions (lead measures). • Drive team engagement with a simple, visible scoreboard they update themselves. • Build an unbreakable weekly rhythm of accountability that sustains results. • Transform chaos into clarity and achieve breakthrough performance.