The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months

by Brian P. Moran

A few days or weeks of that is no big deal, but when you put together day after day after day—week after week after week—the result is like compound interest, and in just 12 weeks you can be in a very different position, both personally and professionally.

Those eight elements are: Vision Planning Process Control Measurement Time Use Accountability Commitment Greatness in the Moment

Accountability: Accountability is ultimately ownership.

The very nature of accountability rests on the understanding that each and every one of us has freedom of choice.

The ultimate aim of accountability is to continually ask one’s self, “What more can I do to get the result?”

Commitment: Commitment is a personal promise that you...

Zavazok/slub

Greatness in the Moment: As I wrote in Chapter 10, greatness is not achieved when a great result is reached, but long before that, when an individual makes the choice to do what is necessary to become great.

The results are not the attainment of greatness, but simply confirmation of it.

Vysledky nie su dosiahnutie niecoho, ale potvrdenie niecoho

These five disciplines are: 1. Vision 2. Planning 3. Process Control 4. Measurement 5. Time Use

Vision: A compelling vision creates a clear picture of the future. It is critical that your business vision aligns with and enables your personal vision.

Presvedciva / jasna vizia

Planning: An effective plan clarifies and focuses on the top-priority initiatives and actions needed to achieve the vision.

Process Control: Process control consists of a set of tools and events that align your daily actions with the critical actions in your plan.

Measurement: Measurement drives the process.

Time Use: Everything happens in the context of time. If you are not in control of your time, then you are not in control of your results.

I. Uninformed Optimism II. Informed Pessimism III. Valley of Despair IV. Informed Optimism V. Success and Fulfillment

Udolie beznadeje

When you install the 12 Week Year as your operating system, it leverages your other business systems. For instance, most companies have systems for marketing, sales, products, service, technology, and other business processes. Without a system for execution, we tend to hang onto our existing systems because that is what is familiar and predictable—especially when we are faced with change.

People need stability; we need some things to remain the same. The 12 Week Year as an operating system stays the same.

Ked zavediem operacny system 12 tyzdnovy, budem mat stabilitu. Ostatne sa moze menit

Establish Your Vision

Vybudovat / zalozit moju viziu

To help you stay on track, you will need a powerful reason

The most powerful visions address and align your personal aspirations with your professional dreams. In the end, your professional vision often funds and enables your personal vision.

The best visions are big ones.

Impossible, Possible, Probable, Given

Pfredpokladany

The first step, then, to reaching your biggest dreams is to shift from impossible thinking to possible thinking. You do this not by asking How? but by asking What if

Co keby som sa nepytal "ako"? Ale "Co keby…?"

If the question of what if ? is the visioning question, then the question of how is the planning question.

The final shift needed in your thinking to create an effective vision is to move from probable to given.

Dany / stanoveny / urceny

Figure 13.1 The execution journey is first a thinking journey. If you think that something is impossible—it is. The most important thing is to believe that you can reach your goals.

There are three time horizons that you’ll want to focus your vision on: 1. Long-term aspirations 2. Mid-term goals, about three years into the future 3. 12 Weeks (covered in the next chapter)

Aspirational Vision

desire?

Tuzba ake mam? Dlhodoba vizia

Aspirational Vision

Moja aspiracnla.vizia je: perfektne zdravie mna a mojej rodiny. Krasne zdrave deti a potom vnucata a pravnucata. Vubidovany funkcnyholding spolocnosti. Ja jachta a jarka vrtulnik. Sestra zuzka na ktoru bujdem brdy. Skveli znami a kamarati lebo chcdm.byt obklopeny pozitivnymi ljudmi.

Three-Year Vision

Based on your long-term vision, what do you want to create over the next three years?

Thinking Shift

Posunut sa

Team Application While vision is generally an intensely personal exercise, a manager can often take specific actions that will help their direct reports to more effectively leverage their visions.

Posobenie / vplyv

If your direct reports take ownership of their visions, it will be much easier to help them to own their goals and plan tactics as well.

Ask permission to review their professional visions with them. Dig into why the business vision they have is important to them. Explore what achieving their business goals enables in their personal lives.

Questions That Uncover the Degree of Ownership

Otazky pre tim aby som v nich vzbudil viziu

Once they have clear ownership of their visions, the next step is to help them build an action plan to achieve them.

If they are unwilling to take the difficult actions, confront them with the reality that they won’t attain their long-term vision. The breakdown is a question of ownership.

Team Visions As a leader, it’s important that you establish a team vision for your company, division, or group.

The team vision is similar to the individual vision in that it describes the destination at a fixed point in the future.

Timova spolocnavizia musi popisovat skvelu spolocnu buducnost

Common Pitfalls and Success Tips

Bezne PASCE a tipy

Pitfall 1: You don’t take the power of vision seriously.

Some people, especially type-A people, think that vision is fluff.

Myslime si ze vizia je nepodstatna

Pitfall 2: The vision isn’t meaningful to you.

Vizia nie je zmysluplna pre mna

Pitfall 3: Your vision is too small.

Pitfall 4: You don’t connect your vision to your daily actions.

Success Tip 1: Share it with others.