Hey everybody, welcome to the Andy Stanley Leadership Podcast, where we do our best to help leaders go further or faster.

I'm Andy Stanley, and I'm excited about this month because I get to be the host, which means I get to ask the questions.

And my friend Chris McChesney is back in the studio with me to continue our

conversation about the four disciplines of execution. As we talked about last time, has impacted

and is currently impacting our organization. And then I found out that Chris basically lives

25 minutes from here. I'm like, why have I not met this guy? Chris had an opportunity to address about

a thousand business leaders in our community a few weeks ago. He's talked to our staff, and I said,

hey, we need to do a two-part podcast because there's just too much to talk about one time around.

So, Chris, welcome back. Thank you, Andy. It's great to be here. As we talked about in the first

episode, Chris is actually the global practice leader of execution for Franklin Covey, an organization we have all intersected with at some point in our careers. Andy's one of the primary developers of the four disciplines of execution. For more than a decade, he's led Franklin Covey's ongoing design and development of these principles. And there's so much to learn. But what I want to do is back up just a little bit. And for our audience who has, did not listen to last month's podcast. In fact, I would just say to you, if you didn't hear last months, please just hit pause, find the previous episode, listen to it first, and then come back to this one.

But just a real quick catch-up for those of you who did listen, but it's been a while.

There are four disciplines, and so Chris, real quickly, just walk us through the four,

and then we're going to take the conversation forward from there.

You got it.

So this is really about applying focus towards a critical metric in the organization that's

holding you back.

One thing that would positively impact a lot of other stuff.

The first discipline is called Focus on the Wildly Important, and it is that discipline of

defining the starting line, the finish line, the deadline. Think about translating

a concept into a critical target or the fewest targets, you know, necessary to execute on that

objective. That's discipline one is really the focusing and targeting. Discipline two

really is the principle of leverage, what we call

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