Hey everybody, welcome to the Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast, a conversation designed to help leaders go further, faster.

I'm Andy Stanley, and I'm excited about this month's podcast because I get to be the host,

which means I get to ask the questions. And in the studio today with me is my friend Chris McChesney, the co-author of the four

disciplines of execution. Now, welcome to the studio, Chris. I am having so much fun. Thanks, Andy.

Yeah, Chris says that because this morning we started with a breakfast and we invited the business

community and you're such a draw. We had a thousand people show up at 7 a.m.

Andy invites people to come to breakfast and a thousand people show up.

I know who shows up for me.

Well, it really was amazing.

I made one announcement a few weeks ago, and we sent out one email, and it was full.

So this morning was so much fun.

And then Chris spent an hour or so with our staff.

So we've had a really fun day together. But let me tell a little bit about Chris in case you

don't know. He's the co-author of the four disciplines of execution. It's an extraordinary book

on strategy. I'll let him talk about that in a minute. Part of his day job, he's the global

practice leader of execution for Franklin

Covey, an organization we're all familiar with and has intersected most of our lives as leaders at

some point along the way. But the reason I'm so excited about having Chris in the studio is about

six months ago, our staff, our leadership team, read the four disciplines of execution. And like most leaders,

and we're going to talk about this, strategy is one thing. Execution is a whole other thing.

You know, we walk out of our planning meetings and the white boards are full and we're all

taking pictures of the white boards. We're going to do all this stuff. And like most leaders,

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