Only then can you make your highest contribution to the things that really matter. Jude and the Minnesota Community Education Association.Įssentialism starts with giving yourself permission (or forcing yourself) to stop trying to do it all. And he is a regular keynote speaker at non-profits groups including The Kauffman Fellows Program, St. policy group, Resolve, and as a mentor with 2Seeds, a non-profit incubator for agricultural projects in Africa. Greg is an active Social Innovator and currently serves as a board member for Washington D.C. His work included a project for Mark Hurd (then CEO of Hewlett Packard) assessing the top 300 executives at HP. Prior to this, Greg worked for Heidrick & Struggles' Global Leadership Practice assessing senior executives around the world. He has taught at companies that include Apple, Google, Facebook,, Symantec, Twitter, and VMware. Greg is currently CEO of McKeown, Inc., a leadership and strategy design agency. The World Economic Forum inducted Greg into the Forum of Young Global Leaders. in Communications (with an emphasis in journalism) from Brigham Young University and an MBA from Stanford University. Originally from England, he is now an American citizen, living in Southern California. He has authored or co-authored books, including the Wall Street Journal Bestseller, Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter (Harper Business, June 2010), and journal articles. Greg McKeown is a business writer, consultant, and researcher specializing in leadership, strategy design, collective intelligence and human systems.
A must-read for any leader, manager, or individual who wants to learn how to do less, but better, in every area of their lives, Essentialism is a movement whose time has come. It is a systematic discipline for discerning what is absolutely essential, then eliminating everything that is not, so we can make the highest possible contribution towards the things that really matter.īy forcing us to apply a more selective criteria for what is Essential, the disciplined pursuit of less empowers us to reclaim control of our own choices about where to spend our precious time and energy – instead of giving others the implicit permission to choose for us.Įssentialism is not one more thing – it’s a whole new way of doing everything. It is not a time management strategy, or a productivity technique. It’s about getting only the right things done. If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is the Way of the EssentialistThe Way of the Essentialist isn’t about getting more done in less time.
Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin?ĭo you simultaneously feel overworked and underutilized?ĭo you feel like your time is constantly being hijacked by other people’s agendas?
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