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🗓️ 6 October 2025
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In this "Lessons" episode, Chris McChesney, author of The 4 Disciplines of Execution and #1 Wall Street Journal bestseller, breaks down how leaders can execute with clarity when everything feels urgent. He reveals why most teams struggle to act on strategic priorities amid constant pressure, and how the Four Disciplines—focus, leverage, engagement, and accountability—help bridge the gap between knowing and doing. Learn how to separate the truly important from the merely urgent, use lead measures to create momentum, and sustain high performance through simple, consistent execution habits that cut through chaos.
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| 0:00.0 | In this lesson's episode, discover how the four disciplines of execution help leaders turn strategy into action |
| 0:05.5 | and focus on what truly drives results. |
| 0:07.9 | Learn how to overcome uncertainty and urgency that block progress, |
| 0:11.2 | understand why clarity and leverage determine successful outcomes, |
| 0:14.4 | and explore how accountability and focus sustain long-term performance in any organization. |
| 0:31.6 | So let's let's let's let's let's let's queue up the the four disciplines and what they're actually so four disciplines are four disciplines that are focused on executing executing in a a business context, in a leadership context. |
| 0:40.0 | This is obviously what the, you know, this is the book that you just re-released. |
| 0:44.0 | Today, today is actually the day. Today, actually. Today we're recording it on Tuesday, April 20th. |
| 0:50.2 | Yeah, so congratulations. That's exciting. It's very exciting. So actually, so what's the, |
| 0:57.6 | what's the re-release about? Like if people have already checked out this book, what is the |
| 1:01.3 | re-release? And then I actually want to go into some of the more tactical stuff, but I'm just |
| 1:04.1 | curious what's the, yeah. Yeah. So if you're familiar with the four disciplines, the re-release, |
| 1:09.8 | about 30% new content, really a lot of |
| 1:13.1 | focus on where to use this approach and where not to use this approach. |
| 1:17.5 | This is not, you know, vitamin C. |
| 1:19.6 | This is not good for what ails you. |
| 1:21.5 | This is heavy medicine, right? |
| 1:23.3 | And where do leaders apply these disciplines and where not to? |
| 1:27.3 | How do leaders of leaders? We go into much more detail on how organizational leaders apply this. We do a lot with leaders that are finding themselves managing projects and they're not project managers. How do you apply the disciplines to a project goal instead of a performance type goal. And then finally, sustainability. |
| 1:47.3 | A lot of organizations have been at this for almost a decade. How do you keep it fresh? How do you |
| 1:51.3 | keep it alive? So those are kind of, I guess, the headlines or the highlights of how, |
| 1:56.6 | of what's new in the second edition. And there are valid points because I can, I can tell you from personal experience, |
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