The 4 Disciplines of Execution: How To Realize Your Most Wildly Important Goals

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Having sold several million copies of The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, Sean Covey is shifting his focus to the essential 4 business disciplines Sean Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens has sold over 2 million copies, and the other Covey books are also multi million copy bestsellers. The Four Disciplines of Execution is about a simple, proven formula for reaching the goals you want to reach as a business or individual. In Covey's experience, the thing that most undermines the ability to execute goals is what he calls the Whirlwind: those urgent tasks that must be done simply to keep an organization alive. As Covey shows, the only way to execute new, important goals is to separate those goals from the Whirlwind. The Four Disciplines allow leaders to create a strategy that requires a change in behaviour, since only by ensuring that everyone on the team understands the goal, knows what to do to reach it and knows whether progress is being made, will a leader produce consistent breakthrough results while sustaining the urgent work of the Whirlwind. The Four Disciplines of Execution are:1. Focus on the Wildly Important; 2. Act on the Lead Measures; 3. Keep a Compelling Scoreboard; 4. Create a Cadence of Accountability. For more than a decade Franklin Covey has been studying what it takes to achieve important goals, and in this book they share success stories from a widerange of companies that have implemented the Four Disciplines to result in greater profits, increased market share and improved customer satisfaction. This way of thinking is essential to any company that wants to not only weather, but thrive in this economy.

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Sean Covey, Executive Vice President of Innovation for Franklin Covey Corp, is author of the international bestseller The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens, which sold more than 4 million copies and was translated into more than 20 languages. An MBA from Harvard, he is the son of Dr. Stephen R. Covey.