• Every person, top to bottom, understands what they need to do to accomplish the company’s most important goals.
• Each team identifies and acts on the critical activities that will predict goal achievement.
• Every leader controls a simple, proven system for driving accountability.
• Every person’s performance becomes transparent, and therefore can be rewarded and / or improved.

1. Focus on the Wildly Important. Everyone on the team is crystal clear about and committed to the few absolute top priorities that define success. The “Wildly Important Goal” (WIG) is the one that must be achieved, or nothing else you achieve really matters much.
2. Act on the Lead Measures. Everyone knows and commits to a few “80/20” activities that will have the most impact; then they use “lead measures” to track those activities relentlessly.
3. Keep a Compelling Scoreboard. Everyone knows the critical measures of success and, at every moment, if they are winning or not. A compelling scoreboard motivates people to win.
4. Create a Cadence of Accountability. Everyone accounts frequently and regularly for progress toward the goals. Every team engages in a simple weekly “WIG Session” to track successes, analyze failures, and “course-correct” as necessary.

The 4 Disciples of Execution Process. Discipline 1 is about what to do; Discipline 2, how to do it; Discipline 3, what success means; and Discipline 4 (which circles the others), an ongoing cycle of accountability that drives success.

These four disciplines add up to the ultimate performance management system.

WIG Session Process. In the weekly WIG Session, team members account for the previous week, review the scoreboard to see where they stand, and plan the upcoming week—all in order to move the Wildly Important Goals forward.

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