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.
好多年没看鸡汤了,趁着年底出差坐火车看了几本鸡汤书,这本算是比较过硬的。 我在30岁以前研究最起码七八个领域的知识,包括事业上、学业上和个人兴趣上的。到了今年,我把其中大部分都砍掉了,然而依然吃力,我每年给自己做年度计划的时候,总会发现一堆证仍然没考下来,英语...
评分事业规划断舍离实践手册,我想这大概是向别人介绍《精要主义》的最省力的说法。 因为看完整本书,那个明确而且坚定的“不”字,感觉绕梁三日不散,最重要的是你要舍弃什么东西,也许是杂务,也许是任务,也许是你眼里的机会。当然在作者麦吉沃恩看来,所有和目标无关...
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...
评分事业规划断舍离实践手册,我想这大概是向别人介绍《精要主义》的最省力的说法。 因为看完整本书,那个明确而且坚定的“不”字,感觉绕梁三日不散,最重要的是你要舍弃什么东西,也许是杂务,也许是任务,也许是你眼里的机会。当然在作者麦吉沃恩看来,所有和目标无关...
评分读毕,对精要主义有几点理解。 第一,精要主要的内涵,也就是精要主义者的核心思维模式。 只做必做之事,尽可能做出最明智的时间和精力投资,从而达到个人贡献峰值。 第二,养成方法。 探索--排除--执行。 探索哪些事项是无意义的,哪些事项是有意义的。 排除掉那些无意义事项...
是典型的这类畅销书的写法,伴随着核心思想有很多引用和事例来佐证,但后半部分略啰嗦,最后甚至写成了鸡汤。但是!关键的是提醒你需要这样种生活态度,正巧能解决你的困扰,又告诉你怎样才能做到,怎样才能不那么痛苦地做到。书中提到的90 percent rule、power of right routine等都是非常有实用价值的方法。总之,这书值得经常拿出来翻翻,提醒自己要be essential。打算买本英文纸书,完全是因为反感湛庐才不想买中文,另外书中提到的the power of habit 也找来读读看。
评分Planning fallacy 那一段非常能够联系到自己身上……
评分inspiring
评分一碗鸡汤喝完,觉得大概可以给人看。对我是没什么卵用。有点年头了
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。
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