Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less (Audiobook)

from debnance

It is a simple idea: focus your attention on the most important things, eliminate the nonessential, and you will achieve great success. It is a book we need, don't we? Our parents never had the choices for using our time that we have; their problems were a lack of options. We suffer today from th...

from Steve_Hinkle

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less invites the reader into a "whole new way of doing everything." Essentialism is a discipline. Essentialism is figuring out what is essential and eliminating everything that is not.I found this book to be packed full of great leadership skills and insig...

from StephenBarkley

When I first arrived at a new staff position in a former church, one of the well-meaning members caught up with me and asked me to participate in her project. It would only take an hour or so once every week. Under pressure to make a good impression I said yes. It didn't take me long to realize m...

from SGTCat

Interesting. I'm not attempting to downplay what's said in this book, but I think "Essentialism" is just Japanese "Minimalism" applied also to human activity and business practices instead of just possessions. That being said, I wish more company executives practiced what McKeown preaches, especi...

from mimo

Author frequently references other management and nonfiction writers such as Drucker, Kahneman, Duhigg, whom I've read, and effectively pulls their best bits to illustrate his own point. Can't decide if this is more for management, or self-improvement. In the end it gushes too much like self-affi...