Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin?
Do you simultaneously feel overworked and underutilized?
Are you often busy but not productive?
Do you feel like your time is constantly being hijacked by other people’s agendas?
If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is the Way of the Essentialist.
The Way of the Essentialist isn’t about getting more done in less time. It’s about getting only the right things done. It is not a time management strategy, or a productivity technique. It is a systematic discipline for discerning what is absolutely essential, then eliminating everything that is not, so we can make the highest possible contribution towards the things that really matter.
By forcing us to apply a more selective criteria for what is Essential, the disciplined pursuit of less empowers us to reclaim control of our own choices about where to spend our precious time and energy – instead of giving others the implicit permission to choose for us.
Essentialism is not one more thing – it’s a whole new way of doing everything. A must-read for any leader, manager, or individual who wants to learn who to do less, but better, in every area of their lives, Essentialism is a movement whose time has come.
Greg McKeown is a business writer, consultant, and researcher specializing in leadership, strategy design, collective intelligence and human systems. He has authored or co-authored books, including the Wall Street Journal Bestseller, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter (Harper Business, June 2010), and journal articles.
Originally from England, he is now an American citizen, living in Menlo Park, California. Greg holds a B.A. in Communications (with an emphasis in journalism) from Brigham Young University and an MBA from Stanford University.
The World Economic Forum inducted Greg into the Forum of Young Global Leaders.
Greg is currently CEO of THIS Inc., a leadership and strategy design agency headquartered in Silicon Valley. He has taught at companies that include Apple, Google, Facebook, Salesforce.com, Symantec, Twitter, and VMware. Prior to this, Greg worked for Heidrick & Struggles' Global Leadership Practice assessing senior executives around the world. His work included a project for Mark Hurd (then CEO of Hewlett Packard) assessing the top 300 executives at HP.
Greg is an active Social Innovator and currently serves as a board member for Washington D.C. policy group, Resolve, and as a mentor with 2Seeds, a non-profit incubator for agricultural projects in Africa. And he is a regular keynote speaker at non-profits groups including The Kauffman Fellows Program, St. Jude and the Minnesota Community Education Association.
现代社会中,人们面临越来越多的选择。对于工作,选择从事什么工作?这是一个考验。面对工作中的多件事情,人们也会遇到很多选择上的困惑。哪些是必须做的,哪些是可以缓做的,甚至是不需要做的。面对信息时代的海量信息,实际上我们还面临着如何选择对我有用的信息的问...
评分 评分中文版序 一旦着眼于长远,胸怀一个十年目标,我们就能视野清明,眼光深邃。 专注精要事务,可以通向成功;但成功会带来太多的选择和机会,其结果是最初通向成功的那个专注点土崩瓦解。 要想走出这种困境,出路就是自律地追求“更少,但更好。” 精要主义就是要打破这种用...
评分 评分精简,回归本质,更少,但更好。
评分Greg给我的印象就是很会讲,讲得比较清楚的几点是,“努力工作“这种事情要先分辨哪些事情上的努力可以最高产为自己的目标做贡献,为了自己的目标去对request做筛选,No more yes. It’s either HELL YEAH! Or no. 如果一直处于on call的状态,绝对没有精力去思考任务中trivial和vital的差别。Say No可以有很多种方式,里面很有技巧的一种是不正面拒绝而是说you are open to A, I am willing to B. 一个半小时翻完了,等等有意思的回头记一笔。
评分3 action items (what i realized that putting in action items is more helpful to internalize the content of the book) 1. Say no firmly, resolutely and gracefully. 2. Block the time to reflect, explore the priority. 3. Evaluate the value based on here and now.
评分最触目惊心的一句话:“If you don't prioritize your life, someone else will."
评分Less but better. Illuminating guide in this information-overloaded society.
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