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Gary Keller is chairman of the board and cofounder of Keller Williams Realty, Inc., one of the largest real estate companies in the world. His New York Times bestselling books have sold more than 1,300,000 copies. Jay Papasan, a former editor at HarperCollins Publishers in New York, co-authors Gary's books and is Vice President of Publishing at Keller Williams. He's a frequent event speaker and corporate trainer.
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简单易懂，深入浅出，很有实践价值
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Business books are always an interesting problem. Are they a prop to sell consulting gigs? Are they stretched out one note ideas? Or do they pull off something worthwhile and can they really aid someone find the business success they are seeking?
Another aspect of business books is their audience. Are they written for a specific group or a general public? Are they preaching to an already converted choir to confirm their preconceived notions or are they offering fresh insights and trying to broaden the horizons of readers?
This book is authored by the very successful founder of one of the nation's great realtors, Keller-Williams. Gary Keller is targeting those business folks who want to find single minded success - the kinds of self-sacrificing, dedicated, and single-minded people he wants to hire and who will make themselves (and him) a great deal of money. "The One Thing" is based on the statement by Curly in "City Slickers". Of course, Keller adapts it to his purposes. Keller believes in focus, utter dedication to your one thing, and driving to breakthrough barriers to get to your one big purpose. Some might call it obsession. He is not a big believer work life balance - he actually rejects it and calls it a lie.
The book has a couple of interesting printing twists to it as well. For example, the key ideas are printed in red inserts. But the coolest thing is that he has pre-marked the book for you. In other words, the key ideas are underlined in what looks like pencil - as if a previous reader had done it for you. But the pencil marks are printed in. But they don't look like printed underlines, they look like pencil.
I am positive this book can and will work well for its target audience. When I was a younger man, I am sure I would have taken to it like a duck to water or like fire to gasoline. Everything he says here will work if you apply it.
Just remember that everything has a cost. Every success (and every failure) has a price. Nothing comes for free.
In my own view of life, business success and work are important AS A MEANS TO SOMETHING MORE IN LIFE. In my case, I believe first and foremost in family. I hear any number of executives talk about this as they are on their third marriage and fathering their own grandkids. Remember this kind of talk is cheap. Living real life is hard. What's that old saying? "You pays your money and you takes your chances." There is a lot of benefit that comes from having succeeded and getting the space and time that comes from financial success. But it is space and time to do something meaningful and worthwhile. Business success as an END in life is a poor thing. Money as an end is empty.
All your work will be superseded. All the homes you sell will be sold again (or torn down). Your office (or cubicle) will be filled by others. You will be replaced and forgotten by co-workers. But not by your spouse and kids (and grandkids).
So, work hard. Be focused. Have a furious purpose. But make sure it is in service to something actually worthwhile or at the end of it all you will find yourself looking around for the satisfaction and meaning you thought you would find there and discover that you are standing all alone with a pile of cash in a big home with a shiny car - and not much else.
Reviewed by Craig Matteson, Saline, Michigan.
I don't even know how or where to begin. Which is ironic because this book is about the opposite.
Ok.
Focus.
Have you stumbled upon books that changed your life around? Have you ever felt the Universe arranged everything for you to be at the right time on your computer, reading the right article that mentioned the perfect book you were meant to read at that specific point in your life? As if it was written specifically for you?
That's how it felt with this book. Now that I'm 2 chapters away from the end, I feel like I don't want it to. It now looks way thicker than when I got it, with almost every few pages dog eared. I've never read any book with so much actionable ideas after each sitting and this just might be the first book I'll consider re-reading. Not because it wasn't understood the first time around, but because I simply want to inundate myself with all its the ideas.
Below are some of the highlights that profoundly resonated with me but I invite you to grab a copy and read the whole book. Its simple, direct, honest and immediately actionable.
1. Extraordinary results are directly determined by how narrow you can make your focus.
2. Achievers always work from a clear sense of priority. Instead of a to do list, you need a success list -- a list that is purposefully created around extraordinary results.
3. The majority of what you want will come from the minority of what you do.
4. Success is actually a short race -- a sprint fueled by discipline just long enough for habit to kick in and take over.
5. It takes an average of 66 days to acquire a new habit.
6. You make doing what matters most a priority when your willpower is at its highest. Do your most important work -- your ONE thing -- early.
7. How we phrase the questions we ask ourselves determines the answers that eventually become our lives.
8. Focusing question: What's the ONE thing I can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?
9. Our purpose sets our priority and our priority determines the productivity our actions produce.
10. Who we are and where we want to go determine what we do and what we accomplish.
This helped my small business increase my sales in the last year by around $200k. It might be simple but it helps you to break down what your first "One Thing" should be. It may seem repetitive but there is a method to the way it is written. I purchased it for my managers as well and had them read it so they would understand why were were focusing on The One Thing and the objectives behind it. I not only used this book to increase profit but also helped my managers put a system in place that by doing so would make their employees focus and do the job they were hired to do. This has made our customers much happier which immediately reflected in the quality of the reviews we received. I used this book to break down what was my One Thing was, then what was the One Thing I could do for each of my managers to make their lives better and be more productive, I then asked my managers to do this with each of their employees to make them better. By focusing on just one area to improve that we knew would have the greatest effect on our customers experience we were able to get it done and the book is correct by taking care of the thing that is the most important in the process 10 other things fall into place and get taken care of as well.
After implementing this system and my managers seeing better performance and results from their staff along with making their jobs easier said why did I not think of this it is great?
So once you get your one thing done and in place re-read the book and figure out what the next one thing is and do it. I love this book and will continue to work on its concepts to increase revenue and profit over the years.
As the owner and manager of the company I broke this book down into "One Things" for me and my staff and helped them implement them all while working on my task as well.
I will tell you that I am a list maker and then I have alway been one to tackle the most important thing on the list and go from there and complete the list one item at a time so that may be why this book resonated with me. It really does work if you can commit to identify, focus and then implement what you need to to get that "One Thing" completed.
Every now and again a "time management" book comes along that promises, with almost breathless excitement, to fundamentally change how you work.
The problem is that the books all say essentially the same thing. This one is no different. It's okay if you're new to time management. If you've read much in this part of the business landscape, you won't find much here that you haven't already been exposed to multiple times.
Bottom line: stop multitasking, stop the distractions, and do the activity that gets you the biggest bang for your buck right now.
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