Stephen R. Covey's The 4 Disciplines of Execution

Author: Stephen R. Covey
Publisher: Franklin Covey on Brilliance Audio; Unabridged edition
ISBN: 1491586745
Language: English
Formats: Audible, Unabridged,Audio CD, Audiobook, CD, Unabridged,Unknown Binding,
Category: Books,Self-Help,Success, FREE Shipping,

Executing strategic goals is the greatest challenge in business today. Aligning the organization's work teams with your most important objectives is a never-ending battle. In addition, keeping teams engaged and focused on the top goals is critical. Imagine an organization where every team―from senior leadership to the front line―is focused on the most important priorities and committed to achieving the Wildly Important Goals.

FranklinCovey has studied the topic of execution for several years in thousands of teams and in hundreds of organizations. Our research shows that execution breaks down in four ways:

1. People and teams don't know the goals. Either there are too many goals or the goals aren't clear.
2. People and teams don't know what to do to achieve the goals. The goals are not translated into day-to-day activities.
3. People and teams don't keep score. Few can tell at any moment if they are on track to achieve the organization's critical goals.
4. People and teams are not held accountable. For results, employees need relevant and timely feedback and regular accountability.

The 4 Disciplines of Execution will help you eliminate these breakdowns.

Executing strategic goals is the greatest challenge in business today. Aligning the organization's work teams with your most important objectives is a never-ending battle. In addition, keeping teams engaged and focused on the top goals is critical. Imagine an organization where every team―from senior leadership to the front line―is focused on the most important priorities and committed to achieving the Wildly Important Goals.

FranklinCovey has studied the topic of execution for several years in thousands of teams and in hundreds of organizations. Our research shows that execution breaks down in four ways:

1. People and teams don't know the goals. Either there are too many goals or the goals aren't clear.
2. People and teams don't know what to do to achieve the goals. The goals are not translated into day-to-day activities.
3. People and teams don't keep score. Few can tell at any moment if they are on track to achieve the organization's critical goals.
4. People and teams are not held accountable. For results, employees need relevant and timely feedback and regular accountability.

The 4 Disciplines of Execution will help you eliminate these breakdowns.

Steven is the most influential writers of his time. This review is of the audio revision on the book. The premise resolves around how the best executioners use the four key disciplines to drive results.

Discipline 1: Narrow the focus; Forecast a finish line
- Big Idea is X to Y by when?
- Defining the finish line makes accountability and moral go up;

Discipline 2: Lead Measures
- Golden Rule of execution: Identify lead measures
- Lead measures are predictive and influence the end goal
- Lags - oh crap measures e.g weighing scale
- Leads - The real bet; Come up with the bet; e.g. controlling calorie intakes
- Too much focus on lags is counterproductive;

Discipline 3: Capture the bet
- Make it a game
- Have Compelling score board
- Scoreboard should tell if we are winning or losing
- People play better when they are keeping score
- Look at the Lag and lead to see the whole game

Discipline 4: Go and Measure it
- Focus on 3 things to do to change the score board!
- Whirlwind urgent items will not change the scoreboard.
- Make the commitment;
- Follow the sequence Goals ->live measures ->lead measures->scoreboards

Key Points
- Account for change in human behavior when trying to execute a strategy
- More the leader is in love with strategy, the more he tends to underestimate the execution
- Focus on the wildly important "the big idea".
- Insisting on people should focus and not acknowledging the whirlwind of events around them will lead to frustration.

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  The 4 Disciplines of Execution - India & South Asia Edition
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Stephen R. Covey's The 4 Disciplines of Execution

Author: Stephen R. Covey
Publisher: Franklin Covey on Brilliance Audio; Unabridged edition
ISBN: 1491586745
Language: English
Formats: Audible, Unabridged,Audio CD, Audiobook, CD, Unabridged,Unknown Binding,
Category: Books,Self-Help,Success, FREE Shipping,

Executing strategic goals is the greatest challenge in business today. Aligning the organization's work teams with your most important objectives is a never-ending battle. In addition, keeping teams engaged and focused on the top goals is critical. Imagine an organization where every team―from senior leadership to the front line―is focused on the most important priorities and committed to achieving the Wildly Important Goals.

FranklinCovey has studied the topic of execution for several years in thousands of teams and in hundreds of organizations. Our research shows that execution breaks down in four ways:

1. People and teams don't know the goals. Either there are too many goals or the goals aren't clear.
2. People and teams don't know what to do to achieve the goals. The goals are not translated into day-to-day activities.
3. People and teams don't keep score. Few can tell at any moment if they are on track to achieve the organization's critical goals.
4. People and teams are not held accountable. For results, employees need relevant and timely feedback and regular accountability.

The 4 Disciplines of Execution will help you eliminate these breakdowns.

Executing strategic goals is the greatest challenge in business today. Aligning the organization's work teams with your most important objectives is a never-ending battle. In addition, keeping teams engaged and focused on the top goals is critical. Imagine an organization where every team―from senior leadership to the front line―is focused on the most important priorities and committed to achieving the Wildly Important Goals.

FranklinCovey has studied the topic of execution for several years in thousands of teams and in hundreds of organizations. Our research shows that execution breaks down in four ways:

1. People and teams don't know the goals. Either there are too many goals or the goals aren't clear.
2. People and teams don't know what to do to achieve the goals. The goals are not translated into day-to-day activities.
3. People and teams don't keep score. Few can tell at any moment if they are on track to achieve the organization's critical goals.
4. People and teams are not held accountable. For results, employees need relevant and timely feedback and regular accountability.

The 4 Disciplines of Execution will help you eliminate these breakdowns.

Steven is the most influential writers of his time. This review is of the audio revision on the book. The premise resolves around how the best executioners use the four key disciplines to drive results.

Discipline 1: Narrow the focus; Forecast a finish line
- Big Idea is X to Y by when?
- Defining the finish line makes accountability and moral go up;

Discipline 2: Lead Measures
- Golden Rule of execution: Identify lead measures
- Lead measures are predictive and influence the end goal
- Lags - oh crap measures e.g weighing scale
- Leads - The real bet; Come up with the bet; e.g. controlling calorie intakes
- Too much focus on lags is counterproductive;

Discipline 3: Capture the bet
- Make it a game
- Have Compelling score board
- Scoreboard should tell if we are winning or losing
- People play better when they are keeping score
- Look at the Lag and lead to see the whole game

Discipline 4: Go and Measure it
- Focus on 3 things to do to change the score board!
- Whirlwind urgent items will not change the scoreboard.
- Make the commitment;
- Follow the sequence Goals ->live measures ->lead measures->scoreboards

Key Points
- Account for change in human behavior when trying to execute a strategy
- More the leader is in love with strategy, the more he tends to underestimate the execution
- Focus on the wildly important "the big idea".
- Insisting on people should focus and not acknowledging the whirlwind of events around them will lead to frustration.

• 
  The 4 Disciplines of Execution - India & South Asia Edition
  This edition is specifically adapted for the South Asia market by Rajan Kaicker, CEO of FranklinCovey India, featuring anecdotes and advice to reflect this emerging market.

  
  

• 
  The 4 Disciplines of Execution
  This is a book that every leader should read!” (Clayton Christensen, Professor, Harvard Business School, and author of The Innovator’s Dilemma). Do you remember the last major initiative you watched die in your organization?

  
  

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  This commemorative collection captures the essence of Dr. Stephen R. Covey’s most profound teachings on business, success, management, family, and love.

  
  

• 
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• 
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  The time management experts at FranklinCovey share their five critical techniques for avoiding distractions and paying focused attention to our most important goals and tasks in our daily lives: This book “fits a real need in these ...

  
  

• 
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  With the 3rd Alternative, nobody has to give up anything, and everyone wins.

  
  

• 
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• 
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• 
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  The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families is an invaluable guidebook to the welfare of families everywhere.

  
  

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• 
  The 5 Essential People Skills
  Readers learn to: •Relate to the seven major personality types •Live up to their fullest potential while achieving personal success •Create a cutting-edge business environment that delivers innovation and results •Use Carnegie's ...

  
  

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  Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals Sean Covey. FranklinCovey and one of the primary developers of the 4 Disciplines of Execution.For more ... Chris's career withFranklinCovey began by working directly with Dr. StephenR. Covey and ...

  
  

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The Girl on the Train

Author: Paula Hawkins
Publisher: Penguin Audio
ISBN: 1611763738
Language: English
Formats: Kindle,Hardcover,Paperback,Audible, Unabridged,Audio CD, Audiobook, Unabridged,
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Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller

“The Girl on the Train has more fun with unreliable narration than any chiller since Gone Girl. . . . [It] is liable to draw a large, bedazzled readership.”—The New York Times

“Like its train, the story blasts through the stagnation of these lives in suburban London and the reader cannot help but turn pages.”—The Boston Globe

“Gone Girl fans will devour this psychological thriller.”—People 

A debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives.

Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She’s even started to feel like she knows them. “Jess and Jason,” she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost.

And then she sees something shocking. It’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough. Now everything’s changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in what happens next, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?

Compulsively readable, The Girl on the Train is an emotionally immersive, Hitchcockian thriller and an electrifying debut.

Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller

“The Girl on the Train has more fun with unreliable narration than any chiller since Gone Girl. . . . [It] is liable to draw a large, bedazzled readership.”—The New York Times

“Like its train, the story blasts through the stagnation of these lives in suburban London and the reader cannot help but turn pages.”—The Boston Globe

“Gone Girl fans will devour this psychological thriller.”—People 

A debut psychological thriller that will forever change the way you look at other people's lives.

Rachel takes the same commuter train every morning. Every day she rattles down the track, flashes past a stretch of cozy suburban homes, and stops at the signal that allows her to daily watch the same couple breakfasting on their deck. She’s even started to feel like she knows them. “Jess and Jason,” she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. Not unlike the life she recently lost.

And then she sees something shocking. It’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough. Now everything’s changed. Unable to keep it to herself, Rachel offers what she knows to the police, and becomes inextricably entwined in what happens next, as well as in the lives of everyone involved. Has she done more harm than good?

Compulsively readable, The Girl on the Train is an emotionally immersive, Hitchcockian thriller and an electrifying debut.

Rachel is a woman who considers herself worthless. She feels that women are only valued for two things: their looks and their role as a mother. She is barren and rather plain looking. Unbeknownst to her landlady she has lost her job but continues to ride the commuter train twice a day. Unfortunately she must pass the home of her ex-husband Tom and his new wife Anna. They've recently had a child which is something Rachel was unable to produce when she was married to him. He's moved his new family into the home that he and Rachel once shared. Tom posted a picture of himself and his newborn on Facebook with the caption that he's never been happier.

Rachel, in her despondency, has taken to drinking to a point where she has blackouts and forgets that she drunk calls her husband many times a night, even shows up at his home. Because of a signal malfunction she often finds her rail car stopped on the tracks next to her former home. She starts to notice another couple who live a few doors down. She refers to them as the golden couple and manufactures a narrative about their lives as she observes them each day. They gradually become important to her.

When Megan (of the Golden Couple) disappears Rachel finds herself an integral character in the police investigation. She was seen stalking the neighborhood the night of the disappearance. She has wounds on her body that can't be explained. Megan and Anna look enough alike that the police feel there may be mistaken identity involved.

The book is told in three voices: Rachel, Megan and Anna. The fact that Rachel has a history of drunken blackouts and has a hard time separating fact from fiction makes her overtly suspect, even to herself.

This was a premise to which I couldn't say no. From the window of her train, troubled, alcoholic commuter Rachel Watson watches the world --including a couple who are frequently out on their terrace at the very point her train stops every day. She names them Jason and Jess and decides their lives are the perfect happy-ever-after that hers has never been. But then Jess, whose name is really Megan, goes missing; and Rachel's memory of the night Megan disappeared is a yawning black hole. Did she see something? Can she help these strangers who continually draw her into their lives? I expected a taut psychological exploration driven by the mystery, but Hitchcock this isn't. None of the characterizations ring true, and the plot is created by withholding information the characters would naturally be thinking about (other than Rachel, who can't think about the plot due to alcohol-induced blackouts).

I didn't find a single one of these characters to be genuine in their humanity. They're not merely unlikable; their un-likability is forced and exaggerated. Rachel's convenient blackouts happen so frequently as to become tedious. Even sober, she constantly makes atrocious decisions, all the while acknowledging to herself variations on "I'm stupid" and "I shouldn't be doing this." She has no common sense, no boundaries, no willpower, no emotional fortitude whatsoever. The other first-person narrators are no more believable: Anna, who is married to Rachel's ex-husband Tom and seems to be a mash-up of sociopath and nurturer (what?); and Megan, about whom I really can't say anything without spoiling the mystery.

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