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Fully revised and updated, the definitive guide for leaders on how to create lasting organisational change.

Do you remember the last major initiative you watched die in your organisation? Did it go down with a loud crash? Or was it slowly and quietly suffocated by other competing priorities? By the…

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Planning is easy, but execution is hard. Nonprofit leaders can gain a clear, practical understanding of how to measure and execute an organization's progress toward social impact goals with the clear, simple, and compelling four disciplines of execution.

It is simply terrific for putting strategy into practice. You will learn the key concepts from 4DX. We found reading it like getting a new set of glasses that brings the world of management into focus and allows us to see a pathway to success.

Everybody knows that having goals is important, and yet so many of us are bad at achieving them.

The 4 Disciplines of Execution, or as it is commonly known “4DX” is a book that walks you through a simple framework to utilize when striving toward a goal in order to actually achieve it. 

This book taught me the difference between lead and lag measures—which showed me that I’d been keeping track of my goals all wrong—and helped me better understand leverage and the importance of accountability.

This is a great read to help you achieve more of the goals you…

Four Disciplines of Execution is a great summary of the essential ideas on how to turn plans into outcomes, based on wide industry research that compared exceptional performers to teams that just wasted time. The real gem in the book is distilling the difference between lagging and leading indicators, and providing models for measuring value in the short term, so you can focus the work of your teams. 

The authors distilled the ideas into a simple model with a very clear vocabulary, that you’ll be able to use with your colleagues and stakeholders to speed up the discussions. For that…

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