Hello everyone, today I want to share with you a management book, "The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals" ("The 4 Principles of Execution of Highly Effective People").

The book is co-authored by Sean Covey, Chris McChesney, and Jim Huling, Franklin Covey executives and experts in management and leadership. The book offers a systematic approach to helping people achieve their goals and become more effective, especially in the high-pressure environments of everyday business.

The core of "The 4 Disciplines of Execution" are four execution principles, which are focusing on important goals, paying attention to leading indicators, adhering to incentive scorecards and establishing a regular accountability system. The core idea of these principles is to help people focus on so-called "extremely important goals" and achieve these goals through continuous execution. Each executive discipline provides practical advice and tools that can help readers achieve better results in their personal and professional lives.

The book is very easy to read and understand, and it provides many practical examples of how to apply the principles to achieve your goals. The author also provides many actionable tools, such as goal tracking form, weekly report, forecast chart and score sheet, etc., which can help readers apply these principles in practice. The value of this book lies not only in the practical methods and tools it provides, but also in its ability to inspire readers to think and reflect on their personal and professional lives. It reminds us that what matters is not only what we want to achieve, but also how to achieve it through continuous efforts.

If you or your department are looking for a simple and practical framework to help you achieve your goals, or if you have not fully understood the meaning of performance management this year, I highly recommend you to read this book, it will help you Manage the energy and resources of the department in a more systematic way, and help the department to focus on the key points to complete the big goals in 2023.

The following are some wonderful thoughts and comments of Zhongshuo colleagues who have read the book:

Guangzhou Branch Boling

After reading this book, it is of great significance to my current work guidance. This book not only teaches us "what to do", but also tends to lead us "how to do it". Focusing is not too difficult, but it is more difficult to include daily affairs in the scope of focus to improve and innovate. So the most critical step in focusing is to identify your most important goals. Another key to staying focused: streamline goals and set deadlines for their completion. Pay attention to leading indicators. The leading indicators are often there, people just don't see it.

Domestic Warehousing Hu Wenfeng

This book is a guide to how to be a highly effective person, it is to help us manage our time better, better understand our work and our goals. I've started trying to implement the advice in this book and have seen a huge improvement in my life and work. "

Strongly agree that "daily affairs are the real enemy of executionThis view. Too often, we get bogged down in the clutter of things that need to be dealt with while neglecting the things that really matter. Through this book, we can learn how to focus on the most important goals and how to To manage and process our day-to-day work.

Ye Fengqin

It is important to set an important goal and find focus and leading indicators, but a successful management process is not just calling the shots, but also needs to establish a regular system of accountability.

Managers should simultaneously understand the difficulties encountered in the work, report the work plan of last week, review the score sheet, and formulate the next work plan, and each plan must meet the results of the two special orders. Establishing accountability can bring teams and goals together and empower each employee to be better engaged at work. These basic principles have been proven and applicable to almost any organization or environment.

Bay Connie

"The number of good ideas will always exceed the ability to execute!"This is very important, we need to focus on the most important things and put most of our energy on these things to improve our ability to execute.

"Find and pay attention to the leading indicators, and track the leading indicators in the complicated daily affairs, and finally provide support for the realization of the lagging indicators."This is a very useful strategy to keep track of key metrics to ensure we stay on the right track as we reach our goals.

"Using a simple and obvious score sheet ensures that everyone on the team knows their results at all times and motivates team members."This is a great way to help team members stay motivated and focused on goals, knowing how their work will be measured.

"Establish a regular accountability system to change the behavior habits of team members, so that everyone works in the same direction and completes the most important goals."This is also a very important point, regular accountability can help keep team members focused and ensure that everyone is working in the same direction.

"Poor team execution—failure to shape good behavior among members."This is a pervasive problem, and the success of a team depends largely on the behavior of its members. If the members of a team lack good behavior habits, then the execution of the team will be seriously affected.

The 4 Principles of Execution for Highly Effective People provides a systematic approach to helping people achieve their goals and become more effective.

In 2023, Zhongshuo started the construction of a systematic target management system. With the help of KPI, a management tool, it will help everyone focus more on strategy and process management.

If you haven't appreciated the charm of management by objectives, then hurry up and read it. I believe this book will not only be helpful to your work, but also beneficial to your career development.