When a leader wants to influence results, there are two principal options: strategy or the ability to execute that strategy. A clear strategy does not automatically mean the team will execute it. The real enemy of execution might be your day job. That’s called the Whirlwind. It’s the urgent, everyday tasks related to sustaining the business day-to-day. It’s easy to lose track of the wildly important in the midst of this whirlwind, but that’s what you must do. The Four Disciplines will help.