The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
anytime you fail to say “no” to a non-essential, you are really saying yes by default.
Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
The next time you and your team sit in a strategy meeting and you start making a long list of issues to resolve, projects to complete, and services to improve, remember to ask, “What will we stop doing?”
Felix Oberholzer-Gee • Better, Simpler Strategy: A Value-Based Guide to Exceptional Performance
Jobs would often test people, asking them, “how many things have you said no to?” Ive was up to the task of answering, only he didn’t mean it, and Jobs read right through him.
I would have these sacrificial things, because I wanted to be very honest about it. And so I’d say, “Well, I said no to this and no to that.” But he knew that I wasn’t vaguel... See more
Farnam Street • Focus to Win
Successful people simplify their lives by focusing on the facts and actions that matter most. If you don’t, you will find yourself either on a hamster wheel or bogged down in trivia. The trickiest part is staying open to new and contradictory information that affects your goals, while cutting out the clutter. One test for noise is to ask whether a
... See moreJoel Tillinghast • Big Money Thinks Small: Biases, Blind Spots, and Smarter Investing (Columbia Business School Publishing)
When you give your ONE Thing your most emphatic “Yes!” and vigorously say “No!” to the rest, extraordinary results become possible.