Authors: Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, Jim Huling

A non-fiction book is good to me if there’s a good idea in there I can use, even if the rest of it seems irrelevant or padded (more likely the latter considering the publishing demands of filling page quotas). Based on a figure I follow, he recommended an idea in this book and I picked it up to read the rest of it.

There’s a lot of good material focused specifically on the execution part of an equation. While other books delve into getting inspired, building passion, generating ideas, strategies that work, tactics that are useful — it means nothing without execution. This is where this book hopes to fill that niche.

Right from the start, it’s obvious this is a platform for further coaching sessions. For someone running an organization, or a division of it, there may be more gems in here to mine than I could get. Unfortunately, for me, the personal takeaway was limited.

In fact, the original inspiration for picking it up felt anti-climactic. There wasn’t much more to the suggestion of the idea that intrigued me, just flavourings on how to make it look and why it’s effective. Good to know, but nothing that gets my brain fired up.

While most of this book is business heavy, there is a section of the book dedicated to implementing these ideas for personal use.

If you’re having issues executing and making it stick, this would be worthwhile to pick up.