Book cover of The 4 Disciplines of Execution: Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals

Book description

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…

When you buy books, we may earn a commission that helps keep our lights on (or join the rebellion as a member).

Why read it?

3 authors picked The 4 Disciplines of Execution as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

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…

From Gojko's list on for new software product managers.

If you love The 4 Disciplines of Execution...

Book cover of These Blue Mountains

These Blue Mountains by Sarah Loudin Thomas,

A moving story of love, betrayal, and the enduring power of hope in the face of darkness.

German pianist Hedda Schlagel's world collapsed when her fiancé, Fritz, vanished after being sent to an enemy alien camp in the United States during the Great War. Fifteen years later, in 1932, Hedda…

Want books like The 4 Disciplines of Execution?

Our community of 12,000+ authors has personally recommended 100 books like The 4 Disciplines of Execution.

Browse books like The 4 Disciplines of Execution

Book cover of Good to Great
Book cover of The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
Book cover of Rich Dad Poor Dad

Share your top 3 reads of 2025!

And get a beautiful page showing off your 3 favorite reads.

1,366

readers submitted
so far, will you?

📚 If you like The 4 Disciplines of Execution, you might also like...

Book cover of Marriage and Fatherhood in the Nazi SS

Marriage and Fatherhood in the Nazi SS by Amy Carney,

When I was writing this book, several of my friends jokingly called it the Nazi baby book, with one insisting it would make a great title. Nazi Babies – admittedly, that is a catchy title, but that’s not exactly what my book is about. SS babies would be slightly more…

Book cover of A Forgivable Indecision

A Forgivable Indecision by Shawn Jennings,

In 1913, a 15-year-old pregnant girl was found dead of apparent suicide. Dr. James Wilson, a new graduate and the first doctor ever to start a practice in this rural town, feels guilty over her death because of his delayed intervention.

He knows Bessie was raped by one of her…

5 book lists we think you will like!