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Execution vs. Strategy

As a leader, you can influence two principal things when it comes to producing results: your strategy (or plan) and your ability to execute that strategy.

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The Formula to Achieve Goals

This simple formula, from FranklinCovey’s The 4 Disciplines of Execution, provides a powerful way to identify “where you are today, where you want to go, and the deadline for reaching that goal.”

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The Strategy Map

The 4 Disciplines of Execution is one of the best leadership tools needed to effectively execute on strategy. This video outlines the strategy map and how it can help your organization.

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Achieving Results in Unpredictable Times

In times of great uncertainty, leaders can freeze to the point of inaction or execute with excellence, increase trust, achieve more, and transform fear into engagement.

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The 4 Disciplines Of Execution®

The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) is a simple, repeatable, and proven formula for executing on your most important strategic priorities in the midst of the whirlwind.

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How To Set Team Goals

Team goals are essential to leading a great team. The next time you are setting team goals, try these six steps.

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Discipline 1: Focus On The Wildly Important

Discipline 1: Focus on the Wildly Important - A wildly important goal (WIG) is a goal that can make all the difference. You're going to commit to apply a disproportionate amount of energy to it.

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Strategy is a Process, Not a Meeting

Scott Miller shares seven thoughts that all leaders should keep in mind as they announce a new strategy or work to implement one.

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Deliberate and Emergent Strategy

Investigative Journalist, Karen Dillon, joins Scott Miller for this episode of FranklinCovey On Leadership. In this clip, Karen describes the two different strategies we have in business and in life.

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Focus Traps

The quickest way to kill execution: lose focus or over-goal your team or your organization.

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Store 334 and The 4 Disciplines of Execution

Watch as Jim and his team utilized The 4 Disciplines of Execution to go from one of the worst-performing stores to one of the best.

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Discipline 2: Act On The Lead Measures

The discipline of leverage requires you to identify and act on the measures that are predictive of reaching your goal and that can be influenced by you and the team.

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Chris Shares Common Behaviors in Leaders who Struggle with The 4 Disciplines

In this clip, Chris shares common behaviors in leaders who struggle with The 4 Disciplines of Execution.

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The More You Try to Do, the Less You Accomplish

This is a stark, inescapable principle that we all live with.

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Achieve Breakthrough Results in the Midst of Your Whirlwind

Join Chris McChesney, as he provides proven insights on implementing practices designed to help leaders consistently achieve breakthrough results, especially in times of change.

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Execution Overview

Learn to execute with excellence. Watch an in-depth overview of The 4 Disciplines of Execution to learn how you can achieve your organization’s strategies.

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How to Clarify Your Goals and Reach the Finish Line

“We are the most focused company that I know of or have read of or have any knowledge of."

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Discipline 3: Keep A Compelling Scoreboard

The discipline of engagement requires you to create a players' scoreboard so that members of the team can easily tell whether they are winning or losing.

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Chris McChesney Shares the Importance of Playing a High-Stakes, Winnable Game

In this clip, Chris shares the importance of playing a high-stakes, winnable game in the workplace.

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The Focusing Power of No

It is incumbent upon leaders to say no to good ideas every day in order to focus on the wildly important strategic goals of their organizations.

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As a leader, you can influence two principal things when it comes to producing results: your strategy (or plan) and your ability to execute that strategy.

This simple formula, from FranklinCovey’s The 4 Disciplines of Execution, provides a powerful way to identify “where you are today, where you want to go, and the deadline for reaching that goal.”

The 4 Disciplines of Execution is one of the best leadership tools needed to effectively execute on strategy. This video outlines the strategy map and how it can help your organization.

In times of great uncertainty, leaders can freeze to the point of inaction or execute with excellence, increase trust, achieve more, and transform fear into engagement.

The 4 Disciplines of Execution (4DX) is a simple, repeatable, and proven formula for executing on your most important strategic priorities in the midst of the whirlwind.

Team goals are essential to leading a great team. The next time you are setting team goals, try these six steps.

Discipline 1: Focus on the Wildly Important - A wildly important goal (WIG) is a goal that can make all the difference. You're going to commit to apply a disproportionate amount of energy to it.

Scott Miller shares seven thoughts that all leaders should keep in mind as they announce a new strategy or work to implement one.

Investigative Journalist, Karen Dillon, joins Scott Miller for this episode of FranklinCovey On Leadership. In this clip, Karen describes the two different strategies we have in business and in life.

The quickest way to kill execution: lose focus or over-goal your team or your organization.

Watch as Jim and his team utilized The 4 Disciplines of Execution to go from one of the worst-performing stores to one of the best.

The discipline of leverage requires you to identify and act on the measures that are predictive of reaching your goal and that can be influenced by you and the team.

In this clip, Chris shares common behaviors in leaders who struggle with The 4 Disciplines of Execution.

This is a stark, inescapable principle that we all live with.

Join Chris McChesney, as he provides proven insights on implementing practices designed to help leaders consistently achieve breakthrough results, especially in times of change.

Learn to execute with excellence. Watch an in-depth overview of The 4 Disciplines of Execution to learn how you can achieve your organization’s strategies.

“We are the most focused company that I know of or have read of or have any knowledge of."

The discipline of engagement requires you to create a players' scoreboard so that members of the team can easily tell whether they are winning or losing.

In this clip, Chris shares the importance of playing a high-stakes, winnable game in the workplace.

It is incumbent upon leaders to say no to good ideas every day in order to focus on the wildly important strategic goals of their organizations.