About The Four Disciplines of Execution (from Amazon):
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My Video Book Review:
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VIDEO TRANSCRIPT:
Welcome to another video book review. Today we were looking at The 4 Disciplines of Execution and, um, it has several authors. So Chris McChesney, Sean Coby, Jim Huling with Beverly Walker and Scott Thele.
Somebody on my team talks about this book all the time. And so I thought it just had to be like the most amazing book ever. And I watched the video. There’s a YouTube video. Uh, which I will link to, uh, where it’s one of the authors, I think it’s Chris McChesney, um, talks about basically 4DX, uh, the four disciplines of execution. And it’s, it’s a goal setting method. Um, I really love the idea of it. I loved the video, uh, thought this book was just going to be the best thing ever. And it is so boring.
It reminds me of when I read, um, what was it called First Things First by Stephen Covey…Anyway, Sean’s dad. Um, and both work for, uh, Franklin Covey. So, um, yeah, it’s just incredibly boring. I feel like it must be a rule with goal setting books. I love books about productivity, but I think when it’s goal setting books, like they just have to be boring. It’s it’s a rule.
Um, if you’re going to read it, I would suggest reading just the first part. I think everything after that is just, it’s just words for the sake of words. It gets so detailed, um, into, you know, how to meet weekly, how to score things, how to…whatever. It’s just, it gets really, really. I think makes it really cumbersome.
Like it shouldn’t be that complicated to have a goal and, and to monitor it. Um, maybe I would just say that because I am a goal oriented person, but these books just drive me crazy. So I did not like this book. Um, I, I would suggest just skipping the book and watching the video.
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