The 4 Disciplines of Execution

Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals

By: Sean Covey

Narrated by: Sean Covey

Length: 3 hrs and 38 mins

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

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. (P)2012 Simon & Schuster

Excited about implementation!

quick read, very practical and intuitive. I can definitely apply this to my small business

Great management system.

4 steps to really improve performance and build in accountability within your team. Good story.

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.

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.

Most valuable time I've ever spent.

$10 could make multi million $ difference for my small business. My business has always done well, however no indication as to how we're doing.

Gotta love a WIG

What made the experience of listening to The 4 Disciplines of Execution the most enjoyable?

The content was great. I like that the basic information was presented in multiple ways so that ANYONE could understand the concepts based on their learning style. I have listened to this book 3 times and have every intention of listening a few more times to really grasp the concepts.

Great Book for Small and Large businesses

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

Excellent book for shaping the future of small and large business alike!

Strategy, execution and results - that's what good business is all about!

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.

Keep it simple..

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