Chapter 8 - No One Goes Home Until The Fire's Out Flashcards

1
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Problems with execution are also signs of a weakness in what?

A

Your leadership approach.

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2
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What is a prerequisite for execution?

A

Communicating clear objectives and outcomes to your people

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3
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What is question number one of the five keys to unlocking execution?

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Are your goals clear?

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4
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What are the things that have to be addressed as part of your execution in order for the whole thing to be successful?

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Priorities.

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5
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What is question number two?

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Who’s going to get it done?

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6
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When you create accountability you strengthen what?

A

Execution.

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7
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How do people motivate themselves?

A

Having a personal stake in something.

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8
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How do you give your people a personal stake?

A

Include them in the dialogue and planning that makes up the decision-making process.

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9
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What is question number three?

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What are they going to use to get it done?

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10
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No leaders should conduct operations without being able to do what

A

Quickly access more resources.

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11
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What is question number four?

A

How’s it going to get done?

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12
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What simply identifies an objective and the general approach you’ll use to reach that objective?

A

Strategy.

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13
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What is the operating plan of your strategy?

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Tactics.

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14
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What are the best management tools?

A

Milestones.

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15
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To be truly useful milestones need to be coupled with what?

A

Some kind of feedback schedule

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16
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You should never finish a meeting without doing what

A

Clarifying with the follow-through will be.

17
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What is question number five

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Does this all seem reasonable?

18
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What is the biggest reason organizations have so much trouble with execution?

A

Wrong-headed or insanely ambitious objectives.

19
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What phase of the decision making process show where weaknesses in leadership become most apparent

A

Action phase.