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The HabitStack Book

The 12 Practices of Goal-Achieving Teams
 
Your big ideas are much easier to achieve with the right goal execution habits.
 
This book is for founders and leadership teams who are tired of scrambling and want more structure, focus, and progress.
 
These habits turn ideas into action, keep your team aligned, and help you get bigger things done.

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Table of Contents

Part 1: Goals are misunderstood, counterproductive, and useful.

Chapter 1: Introduction

What this book is about and why you should read it.

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Chapter 2: How Goals Help You Win

The psychology of goals and how they impact a team.

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Chapter 3: Why Goals Backfire

Goals often turn into empty "theatre" and frustrate everyone.

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Part 2: The 12 execution habits that make goals work for leadership teams.

Ch. 4: How Habits Fix Goals

Adopting the right habits will make goals actually work as intended.

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Ch. 5: Habit #1: Meet Weekly

Disciplined, well-run meetings are the foundation of a goal execution system.

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Ch. 6: Habit #2: Write Useful Goals

Most goals leaders set are useless. Here's how to set goals that drive action.

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Ch. 7: Habit #3: Regularly Reshare

How to communicate the company goals so people remember.

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Ch. 8: Habit #4: Resync Yearly Goals

"Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face." - Mike Tyson

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Ch. 9: Habit #5: Cascade Actions

Break goals down to quarterly, monthly, and weekly actions.

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Ch. 10: Habit #6: Schedule Priorities

"Don't prioritize what's on your schedule. Schedule your priorities." - Stephen Covey

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Ch. 11: Habit #7: Fail Valiantly

When a goal is in jeopardy, don't give up. Get creative and bold. Fight to the end.

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Ch. 12: Habit #8: Track Wins/Losses

"You can't improve what you don't measure." - Peter Drucker

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Ch. 13: Habit #9: Foster Feedback

Read each other's plans. Encourage. Make suggestions. Teams can only win together.

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Ch. 14: Habit #10: Reflect to Learn

Did we miss because of bad planning, bad execution, or bad luck?

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Ch. 15: Habit #11: Don't Add, Swap

Its tempting to add more and more goals over time. Be careful!

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Ch. 16: Habit #12: Check Conviction

Establish cadence to do a goal gut check. Has anything changed? Are they still right?

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Part 3: How to integrate these habits in the real world.

Ch. 17: Implementing Goal Habits

How to get buy-in from your leadership team to adopt a goal execution system.

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Ch. 18: Other Goal Frameworks

How does this compare to OKR, SMART, MBO, and other approaches?

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Ch. 6: Acknowledgements

A thank you to the hundreds of people have helped me write this book.

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This Book is a
Work In Progress

New chapters are released as they are completed.