4 Disciplines Of Execution - KeynesYouDigIt/Knowledge GitHub Wiki

Focus on the wildly important

  • From X to Y by when
  • Only land one plane at a time
  • If everything else stayed the same, what change would have the greatest impact?
  • WIGs cascade (policy deployment)
  • WIGs are tactics, not strategy

Act on lead measures

  • A good lead measure is predictive and influenceable
  • The data is what makes lead measures work
  • Lead measures are often the obvious things
  • Lead measures are usually more difficult or expensive to measure than the lag measures, but more important

Keep a compelling score board

  • People play differently when they're keeping score
  • Always know if you're winning or losing
  • A team's scoreboard is different than a player's score board
  • Needs to be simple, visible
  • Score board is what keeps it from getting lost in the whirlwind

Create a cadence of accountability

  • Accountability is shared
  • The whirlwind is not allowed in a WIG meeting
  • Report on your commitments, review the scoreboard, clear the path, make new commitments
  • Commitments don't need to creative or new
  • A commitment must have a specific deliverable- no “focus on”, “work on”
  • Actively schedule for your WIG

Stages

  1. Leadership clarity
  2. Launching
  3. Adopting
  4. Optimizing
  5. Habits

WIG Criteria

  • Is it measurable?
  • Who owns the result, our team?
  • Who owns the game, leader or team?