Strengthen your thinking · Area 02 of 06
How to find, challenge and focus on the thinking, conversations, decisions and actions that matter most.
Explore the other areasMost of us give our best thinking to whatever shouts loudest. Quality attention is your scarcest resource, and where you point it quietly decides the shape of your life and the lives around you.
When you have identified what truly matters, for yourself, your family, your team, your organisation and your community, that attention finally has somewhere to go. You stop spreading yourself across too many priorities and give the few that count the quality of thought they deserve.
A question to sit with
What is most important for me, my family, my team, my organisation and society to think about, decide on and act on?
Your guides here are people from the Thinking Squad, matched to you and to how you want to grow. They work one to one, and with groups and teams.
Each guide is qualified and informed in their area, with one mission: to elevate the quality of your thinking, conversations, decisions and actions.
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Our five top picks for this area, chosen from the full shelf for this area. Each one earns its place.
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Greg McKeown · 2014
The clearest case ever made for doing less, but better. It gives you a repeatable way to sort the vital few from the trivial many, and permission to say no to the rest. If this pillar had one core text, this is it.
About 6 hours (272 pages)
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
Peter F. Drucker · 1967, definitive edition 2006
Drucker wrote the original playbook on putting first things first and it still reads fresh. You get the discipline of asking what actually needs doing, not what is merely urgent. Sixty years of leaders have tested it and it holds.
About 5 hours (208 pages)
How to Make Hard Choices
Ruth Chang (TED) · 2014
A philosopher reframes the choices that matter most: when options are on a par, you get to decide who you become. It changes how you approach the big calls where no spreadsheet can save you. Fifteen minutes that reshape years of decisions.
15 minutes
The Knowledge Project
Shane Parrish (Farnam Street) · 2015-present
Long, careful conversations about how the best thinkers decide what deserves their attention. You will hear researchers and operators explain how they separate signal from noise. It rewards a walk or a commute better than almost any show.
60 to 90 minutes per episode
Measure What Matters
John Doerr · 2018
Once you know what matters, this shows you how to hold a team to it. Doerr's OKR system forces you to name a handful of objectives and drop the rest. The Google and Gates Foundation case studies show it working at scale.
About 7 hours (320 pages)
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