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Sean Covey

Sean Covey

Executive Vice President of Global Solutions and Partnerships for FranklinCovey.

Sean Covey is Executive Vice President of Global Solutions and Partnerships for FranklinCovey. Sean has led the development of most of FranklinCovey’s organizational offerings, including: Focus, Leadership, The 4 Disciplines of Execution, The Leader in Me, and The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. Sean oversees all of Franklin Covey’s International partnerships which cover over 140 countries.

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The 4 Disciplines of Execution

Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals

by Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling

I planned to read this book since Cal Newport referenced it in Deep Work. I finally did so in preparation to teach Productivity 101. It’s fantastic. If you’re a business leader or entrepreneur I think you’ll particularly enjoy it. Big Ideas we cover include the 4DX, the whirlwind, your Wildly Important Goals, Lag vs. Lead measures, the power of keeping score, and avoiding the blackhole of the magnificently trivial.

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Goals & Modern Hērō & Productivity

Best of Optimize business goals productivity Top 101

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The 4 Disciplines of Execution
#268

Here They Are: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4

Stephen Covey’s son Sean wrote a great book with some other smart guys from FranklinCovey called The 4 Disciplines of Execution. I picked it up awhile ago when Cal Newport referenced it in Deep Work. I read it as I prepped for Productivity 101. It’s fantastic. So, the authors tell us that there are 4...

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Goals & Productivity

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Keep Score
#269

And Watch Your Performance Soar

In our last +1, we had fun cracking open a tiny nutshell of the 4 Disciplines of Execution. Quick quiz: Can you recall them? Quick answers: 1. Know your Wildly Important Goal. 2. Focus on your Lead Measures. 3. Keep score. 4. Stay accountable. I promised we’d talk more about keeping score. Here it goes...

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Goals & Productivity

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2 Scorecards
#270

One for the Lead + Another for the Lag

While we’re on a roll with the 4 Disciplines of Execution, let’s circle back and talk a bit more about the Lead vs. Lag Measures. This is an important concept to get. It’s basically another way to frame the whole systems vs. goals and process vs. outcomes discussions we have. So, again, our LAG mea...

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Goals & Peak Performance

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WIG vs. Whirlwind
#271

Which One Wins?

Continuing our Productivity 101 theme, here’s another gem from the 4DX guys. Recall that the first discipline of execution is to know your WILDLY Important Goal (WIG). It all starts with that clear, super-inspiring target. (You got yours yet?) With clarity on what really matters, we need the courage to...

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Productivity & Purpose

big-picture focus Motivation productivity purpose time management Work