The Four Laws of Execution

Why Strategy Is Nothing Without Action

If culture is a team’s operating system, execution is the application layer. But since not everyone thinks in software terms, let’s use a different analogy—cars.

• The car itself is operations.

• The fuel is culture.

• The engine is execution.

No engine, no movement. Simple.

Stephen Covey’s The Four Disciplines of Execution outlines four key disciplines:

1. F…