Greg McKeown: Essentialism - The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Greg McKeown saw first-hand how success can lead straight to professional and personal failure, during his career evaluating and coaching Silicon Valley executives. The heart of the problem,...
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I've spent the last 15 years pretty obsessed by a single question.Which is, what is it that holds capabledriven people from breaking through to the next level.And the answer to that question to my great surprise is success.I first observed this working with executive teams in Silicon Valley whereI noticed that when they were focused on a few things itled to success but success breaded so many opportunities and options thatthat diffused the very focus that led to success in the first place.And so exaggerating the point in order to make it I found that success becomes acatalyst for failure because it leads to whatJim Collins called the undisciplined pursuit of more.The antidote to that problem is the disciplined pursuit of less, but better.That means exploring th...
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I've spent the last 15 years pretty obsessed by a single question.Which is, what is it that holds capabledriven people from breaking through to the next level.And the answer to that question to my great surprise is success.I first observed this working with executive teams in Silicon Valley whereI noticed that when they were focused on a few things itled to success but success breaded so many opportunities and options thatthat diffused the very focus that led to success in the first place.And so exaggerating the point in order to make it I found that success becomes acatalyst for failure because it leads to whatJim Collins called the undisciplined pursuit of more.The antidote to that problem is the disciplined pursuit of less, but better.That means exploring th...
