Most #business owners/ entrepreneurs have great ideas, but the most important factor is the execution of those ideas. Ruthless execution is needed to bring products/services to the market, and get more customers. To efficiently and effectively execute business plans/ideas is one of the greatest challenges businesses face.

The four disciplines of execution can help you, regardless of all your daily challenges, to enjoy and create clarity, focus and responsibility for decisive strategic goals. It enables entrepreneurs to:

i.) secure and ensure the few deciding standards that have the greatest possibility of leading to the achievement of the goal.

ii.) direct the focus of their team to these deciding factors, to enable them to execute and produce exceptional

results.

iii.) promote the engagement morale, and responsibility of every individual on the team.

It also provides methods, processes and tools so that organisations:

i.) consequently and continually execute to achieve the most important goal.

ii) develop a culture of execution, that leads to a lasting competitive advantage.

iii) train the next generation of high-quality leaders, who know how to execute.

The much talked about 4 disciplines of execution are as follows:

1. Discipline of focus: extraordinary results can only be achieved when you are clear about what matters most. Set your most important goals, for example your goal may be to lose 10kg within one month on a personal level or to expand your business from 3 to 5 branches in the next six months.

2. Discipline of leverage: with limited time and resources in mind, find the real leverage and use it to produce extraordinary results for you. Determine the steps you have to take to reach your most important goals.

3. Discipline of engagement: you have the authority to make things happen, but you want more than that. You want the performance that only passion and engagement can produce. Do well to keep a scorecard of your activities as it is essential to you successfully achieving your goals.

4. Discipline of accountability: no matter how brilliant your plan is, nothing will happen until you followthrough with consistent action. Discipline of accountability brings about the practices that drive accountability and follow through, despite a whirlwind of competing priorities. It is important to have that accountability partner that would help keep you on track.

The first 3 disciplines set up the game, but until you apply discipline 4, your team is not in the game. It is based on the principles of accountability, because unless we consistently hold each other accountable, the goal naturally disintegrates into the whirlwind.

In conclusion, the 4 disciplines of execution can change your life, make you much more productive and help you succeed in both your personal and business life.

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