What do you think?
Rate this book
Summary of The 4 Disciplines of Execution: by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling | Includes Analysis
Summary of The 4 Disciplines of Execution by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling | Includes Analysis
The 4 Disciplines of Execution is a guide for businesses to reliably commit to the goals and plans they set, authored by associates from FranklinCovey, a management consultancy. Rather than focusing on what a business must accomplish to be successful, the four disciplines establish how to accomplish those things.
One reason commitments tend to be abandoned in business is that new projects and goals are less urgent than the day-to-day tasks of each individual employee, which the authors call the “whirlwind.” The key to commitment fulfillment is for new tasks to take up only a small portion of each employee’s time, but for that employee to be held accountable for completing them.
The first discipline is to settle on one or two wildly important goals (WIGs). These are the things that would have the most significant impact on progress toward the business’s long-term goals. In the second discipline, the WIG…
PLEASE This is key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book.
Inside this Instaread Summary of The 4 Disciplines of Execution by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling | Includes Analysis
Overview of the Book Important People Key Takeaways Analysis of Key Takeaways
About the Author
With Instaread, you can get the key takeaways, summary and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. We read every chapter, identify the key takeaways and analyze them for your convenience.
The 4 Disciplines of Execution is a guide for businesses to reliably commit to the goals and plans they set, authored by associates from FranklinCovey, a management consultancy. Rather than focusing on what a business must accomplish to be successful, the four disciplines establish how to accomplish those things.
One reason commitments tend to be abandoned in business is that new projects and goals are less urgent than the day-to-day tasks of each individual employee, which the authors call the “whirlwind.” The key to commitment fulfillment is for new tasks to take up only a small portion of each employee’s time, but for that employee to be held accountable for completing them.
The first discipline is to settle on one or two wildly important goals (WIGs). These are the things that would have the most significant impact on progress toward the business’s long-term goals. In the second discipline, the WIG…
PLEASE This is key takeaways and analysis of the book and NOT the original book.
Inside this Instaread Summary of The 4 Disciplines of Execution by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling | Includes Analysis
Overview of the Book Important People Key Takeaways Analysis of Key Takeaways
About the Author
With Instaread, you can get the key takeaways, summary and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. We read every chapter, identify the key takeaways and analyze them for your convenience.
29 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 23, 2019
11 people are currently reading
24 people want to read
About the author
Instaread Summaries
926 books294 followersWith Instaread, you can get the summary and analysis of a book in 15 minutes. We read every chapter, summarize and analyze it for your convenience.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 5 of 5 reviews
June 12, 2020
Very insightful and inspirational, it’s helping me map out an execution strategy for my business...in real time 😎
April 4, 2021
A seção 1 é interessante e traz diversos insights, as seções 2 e 3 são dispensáveis.
September 29, 2016
Summary of The 4 Disciplines of Execution by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey & Jim Hung by Instaread is a comprehensive analysis of a book that discusses how a business can increase productivity by focusing on the company’s most important goals instead of wasting workers’ time in pursuit of day-to-day ‘whirlwind’ activities. This brief summary, which can be read in less than 15 minutes, provides a detailed discussion of the main sections of the book, and analyzes the writing style,
This is a helpful tool that will enable a busy reader to get a full sense of the content and possible worth of the book without having to buy it first.
I received a complimentary copy of this Instaread book in exchange for an unbiased review.
This is a helpful tool that will enable a busy reader to get a full sense of the content and possible worth of the book without having to buy it first.
I received a complimentary copy of this Instaread book in exchange for an unbiased review.
September 29, 2016
The first key takeaway in this summary is so accurate in defining the problem of trying to identify and act on long term goals that it should be put in all caps, a larger font and bolded. It is
“The chief obstacle to sustaining progress toward goals in a business is the whirlwind of everyday activity that is more urgent but less important.”
Veterans of the modern business world will greet this with a loud “Right on!” Implicit in this statement is the problem of quantifying urgency and importance so that they can be properly balanced against each other.
The second takeaway is also one that will generate strong agreement, although the inclusion of the word “wildly” is an act of hype that is as unnecessary as it is irrelevant. When you are hitting it out of the park, there is no need to pile it on. Although it does allow for the creation of an easily remembered acronym, WIG, for “Wildly Important Goal.”
“The first discipline needed to pursue an important goal is to narrow the list of goals down to the one or two most wildly important. It is expressed as an action with a starting point, end goal, and time frame.”
The remainder of the takeaways generally deal with the implementation hows and are also solid. Creating simple scorecards that are understandable and accurate for employees to monitor their progress is of fundamental importance and emphasized.
This summary contains a great deal of excellent advice on how to break out from the cycle of feeling like the hamster in the wheel. Moving fast and furious but without making any progress on the long-term goals of the organization.
This book was made available for free for review purposes.
“The chief obstacle to sustaining progress toward goals in a business is the whirlwind of everyday activity that is more urgent but less important.”
Veterans of the modern business world will greet this with a loud “Right on!” Implicit in this statement is the problem of quantifying urgency and importance so that they can be properly balanced against each other.
The second takeaway is also one that will generate strong agreement, although the inclusion of the word “wildly” is an act of hype that is as unnecessary as it is irrelevant. When you are hitting it out of the park, there is no need to pile it on. Although it does allow for the creation of an easily remembered acronym, WIG, for “Wildly Important Goal.”
“The first discipline needed to pursue an important goal is to narrow the list of goals down to the one or two most wildly important. It is expressed as an action with a starting point, end goal, and time frame.”
The remainder of the takeaways generally deal with the implementation hows and are also solid. Creating simple scorecards that are understandable and accurate for employees to monitor their progress is of fundamental importance and emphasized.
This summary contains a great deal of excellent advice on how to break out from the cycle of feeling like the hamster in the wheel. Moving fast and furious but without making any progress on the long-term goals of the organization.
This book was made available for free for review purposes.
January 19, 2017
Do not cut corners on this great book. Invest the time in the full version rather than the summary. Much is lost in this condensed version.
Displaying 1 - 5 of 5 reviews