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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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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All Actions Are Not Created Equal
Some actions simply have more impact than others and it is those that you want to identify and act on if you want to reach your goal. We call them lead measures.
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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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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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Focus Traps
The quickest way to kill execution: lose focus or over-goal your team or your organization.
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Discipline 4: Create A Cadence Of Accountability
The discipline of commitment requires you to hold regularly scheduled team meetings where members make and keep commitments to each other to execute on the wildly important goal.
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Blame The People
Most leaders understand how difficult it is to execute on a strategy that requires a change in other peoples’ behavior.
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