• Discipline 1: Focus on the wildly important
    • The more you try to do the less you actually accomplish
  • Discipline 2: Act on Lead Measures
    • 2 types of metrics; lag measures and lead measures
    • Lag measures: the thing you’re ultimately trying to improve
    • Lead measures: measures new behaviors that will drive success on the lag measures
  • Discipline 3: Keep a Compelling Scoreboard
    • People play different when they’re keeping score
    • This scoreboard creates a sense of competition that drives them to focus on these measures even when other demands vie for their attention
    • People play different when they are keeping score
  • Discipline 4: Create a Cadence of Accountability
    • A rhythm of regular and frequent meetings of any team that owns a wildly important goal
    • During those meetings the team members must confront their scoreboard and commit to specific actions to improve the score before the next meeting
    • Discipline #4…this is where execution really happens