Story: ignoring the reality of trade-offs is a terrible strategy for organisations.
Only with real clarity of purpose can people, teams, and organizations fully mobilize and achieve something truly excellent.
Clarity about what is essential fuels us with the strength to say no to the non-essentials.
William James once wrote, My first act of free will shall be to believe in free will.2
To eliminate non-essentials means saying no to someone.
Saying no is its own leadership capability.
Our investment philosophy borders on lethargy.
Our highest priority is to protect our ability to prioritize.
How the Mighty Fall, Jim Collins explores
Essentialist Thinks ALL THINGS TO ALL PEOPLE
Getting more out of less space. He named it, appropriately, LifeEdited.com.
Choice is an action. It is not just something we have but something we do.
With repetition the routine is mastered and the activity becomes second nature.
What if we stopped being oversold the value of having more and being undersold the value of having less?
WITHOUT GREAT SOLITUDE NO SERIOUS WORK IS POSSIBLE. —Pablo Picasso Frank
The word priority came into the English language in the 1400s. It was singular.
Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come.
It’s a method for making the tough trade-off between lots of good things and a few really great things.
It creates corporate environments that talk about work/life balance but still expect their employees to be on their smart phones 24/7/365.
Essentialism is not about how to get more things done; it’s about how to get the right things done.