As Peter Drucker said, In a few hundred years, when the history of our time will be written from a long-term perspective, it is likely that the most important event historians will see is not technolo...
Sunk-cost bias.
What if society stopped telling us to buy more stuff and instead allowed us to create more space to breathe and think? What if society encouraged us to reject what has been accurately described as doi...
The way of the Essentialist isn't about setting New Year's resolutions to say no more, or about pruning your in-box, or about mastering some new strategy in time management. It is about pausing consta...
The children were given ten tokens at the beginning of the week. These could each be traded in for either thirty minutes of screen time or fifty cents at the end of the week, adding up to $5 or five h...
In your personal or professional life, the equivalent of asking yourself which clothes you love is asking yourself, Will this activity or effort make the highest possible contribution towards my goal?
I had just learned a crucial lesson: certain types of effort yield higher rewards than others.
His observation was that you could massively improve the quality of a product by resolving a tiny fraction of the problems. He
So we introduced a token system.9 The children were given ten tokens at the beginning of the week. These could each be traded in for either thirty minutes of screen time or fifty cents at the end of t...
HALF OF THE TROUBLES OF THIS LIFE CAN BE TRACED TO SAYING YES TOO QUICKLY AND NOT SAYING NO SOON ENOUGH. —Josh Billings
For the first time—literally—substantial and rapidly growing numbers of people have choices. For the first time, they will have to manage themselves. And society is totally unprepared for it.
DEBATE UNTIL YOU HAVE ESTABLISHED A REALLY CLEAR (NOT PRETTY CLEAR) ESSENTIAL INTENT Without clarity of purpose, Nonessentialist leaders straddle their strategy: they try to pursue too many objectives...
Clayton Christensen, the Harvard business professor and author of The Innovator’s Dilemma, was once asked to make just such a sacrifice. At the time, he was working for a management consulting firm, a...
¿Y si fuera a Stanford a estudiar un posgrado? Ya
The authors found that the ones that executed most successfully did not have any better ability to predict the future than their less successful counterparts. Instead, they were the ones who acknowled...
Science shows that even a nap can increase creativity. In
Finds that for many, falling into the undisciplined pursuit of more was a key reason for failure. This is true for companies and it is true for the people who work in them. But why?
Discern the vital few from the trivial many.
Choice is not a thing. Our options may be things, but a choice—a choice is an action. It is not just something we have but something we do.
When there was a serious lack of clarity about what the team stood for and what their goals and roles were, people experienced confusion, stress, frustration, and ultimately failure. As