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.
沉没成本、精要事务、专注力、学会说“不”、止损、个人贡献峰值……这些词汇,对于大量阅读过个人管理类书籍的你,并不会陌生。然而《精要主义》这本书,还是再一次触动了我。不是那些大道理,因为“道理谁都会说,做起来却不是那么回事儿”,而是被那些作者在实践中总结出的...
评分 评分又一本讲决策的书,带了点工程学的方法论。 从可能性、取舍、目标三个角度讲,这个框架是没问题的。 理论框架: 一,可能性 惯性生活是有代价的,代价是慢慢忽视生活的可能性,慢慢也丧失了自己选择的能力,一旦自己放弃选择的时候,就会有别的力量或者别的人来帮你选择。这个...
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评分都是常識,再學一遍,很好。
评分4.5星. 单独因为90%rules,的确让我又多了条原则 和the power of less有些重合,但更多实际操作的建议。 play is essential. 90% rule等,还是有些新内容的。不过排版就没power of less清晰了,比如可以在例子前后做出标记,方便读者跳过。但至少行文结构还是清晰的,哪些例子哪些观点结论都可以一眼扫到
评分最触目惊心的一句话:“If you don't prioritize your life, someone else will."
评分最触目惊心的一句话:“If you don't prioritize your life, someone else will."
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