Takeaways from The 4 Disciplines of Execution

The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals
by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling

   I have finished reading this book and highly recommend to read it. The 4 Disciplines of Execution focuses on how to execute and manage projects efficiently. It is a good reference for people who are in a position of leadership and project management. The principles mentioned in this book are mainly targeted for the teams and companies to improve their performance. We can also apply them to our personal projects and development plans.


   The four disciplines of execution are:

1. Focus on the Wildly Important
2. Act on Lead Measures
3. Keep a Compelling Scoreboard
4. Create a Cadence of Accountability

Here are my quick lessons from this book.

1. Identify your most important goal and focus on it within a given time. Focus is a critical point in execution. There might be many important goals in your agenda, but find out the one to focus on in a given time. After completing it you can go to the next important one.


2. Work on the causes of improving the results. To improve the final result, one should work on the reasons or actions plans. Great achievements come from performing daily targets successfully. Focusing on accomplishing the tasks like reading one book in a week, meeting with six new prospects in a month, or selling 100 units of product in a month provides growth in the final outcome of a target project.


3. Create a checklist to write down your daily accomplishments. It shows the overall progress of your project and how well you are performing or where you are working poorly. Based on your performance results, you can change or apply other methods to your action plan.


4. Be accountable for your tasks. Report yourself or your team about your weekly accomplishments. Identify your next action plan and identify your short-term goals.

 I highly recommend this book. Thank you for reading!