Slo · Productivity, Work & Focus
The One Thing
by Gary Keller
Three key ideas
- Pick the action that best advances your goal or removes the bottleneck, not the easiest task.
- Work backward from a big goal to a next step, and review the milestones when things change.
- Put a realistic block for your priority on the calendar and prepare what it needs.
The five 2-minute lessons
- 1.Leverage beats looking busy
- 2.Link the future to the next step
- 3.Give the priority a protected block
- 4.Say the tradeoff out loud
- 5.Focus is not your whole life
From the comic
The owner hung new flags. Orders still can't get through.
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