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robivy's review against another edition
4.0
Some great concepts here. Love the notion that the calendar year is an arbitrary and obsolete deadline/goal period. When integrated with some GTD principles, this methodology could really boost effectiveness for mid level managers and individual producers. I think that senior executives will have trouble implementing due to the amount of desk time it requires in a week, but if they can implement it - IMO it would be powerful.
See my full notes on the book here: http://bit.ly/1auyggY
See my full notes on the book here: http://bit.ly/1auyggY
bailey_the_bookworm's review against another edition
1.0
You know how you feel super stressed at year-end when you’re under a ton of pressure to meet all your business goals? What if you felt like that all the time, forever? Someone tell me how that is supposed to be an effective selling point.
Hustle hustle hustle hustle grind grind grind grind. No thanks!!
Also. People writing business books, I am literally begging you: find examples other than weight loss. The world is vast and interesting; you can make your point in an infinite variety of ways, and most of them would be more compelling than recycling the same harmful (false, mean-spirited, boring as hell) nonsense about losing weight. Maybe there are 46,000 books about weight loss because making people insecure about their bodies and hooking them into an ineffective cycle of weight loss/gain is wildly profitable, not because people are lazy slobs who don’t try. Just something to think about!!
This is not a book about weight loss, but apparently it’s the only example they could come up with. This book also recommends cutting your calories to 1,200 or LESS per day. That alone should disqualify any of the ideas herein from serious consideration.
The most annoying thing about this is that the idea of breaking the year into 12-week cycles (apart from the hustlegrind of it all) seems intriguing (but then again, it’s pretty much just: break your goals down into manageable chunks and then take action on those chunks, and that is not a new idea!)
Hustle hustle hustle hustle grind grind grind grind. No thanks!!
Also. People writing business books, I am literally begging you: find examples other than weight loss. The world is vast and interesting; you can make your point in an infinite variety of ways, and most of them would be more compelling than recycling the same harmful (false, mean-spirited, boring as hell) nonsense about losing weight. Maybe there are 46,000 books about weight loss because making people insecure about their bodies and hooking them into an ineffective cycle of weight loss/gain is wildly profitable, not because people are lazy slobs who don’t try. Just something to think about!!
This is not a book about weight loss, but apparently it’s the only example they could come up with. This book also recommends cutting your calories to 1,200 or LESS per day. That alone should disqualify any of the ideas herein from serious consideration.
The most annoying thing about this is that the idea of breaking the year into 12-week cycles (apart from the hustlegrind of it all) seems intriguing (but then again, it’s pretty much just: break your goals down into manageable chunks and then take action on those chunks, and that is not a new idea!)
brittsanderson_'s review
informative
slow-paced
3.75
Very informative and the concept is A+.
Felt very textbooky and not the easiest to digest
Felt very textbooky and not the easiest to digest
hauntedwell's review against another edition
3.0
Could have been an informational pamphlet. Super excited to apply the main points to this year :)
greencalcite's review against another edition
informative
reflective
medium-paced
3.5
Authors bring up weight loss as an example - raging fatphobes. Very White Men. It made me uncomfortable. If only they took their own advice and stayed focused to relevant business examples to illustrate their exercises. What I will take away from this is their actual framework. I’ll get back again if it actually works. They have a field guide book, hopefully that’s a lot more concise and focused.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Fatphobia