Gotta Get Speed! (book review)
December 22, 2008 by Phil Gerbyshak
Filed under Business
Do you think work/life balance is some cruel joke designed by someone who’s never managed YOUR team or worked at YOUR company?
Do you wonder how to spend more time on what you enjoy, and less time on what you hate?
Pick up a copy of Vince Poscente’s Age of Speed today to learn how to do this.
I was admittedly VERY skeptical about a book that talked about speed and pacing, because I have heard from so many experts that you need to S-L-O-W D-O-W-N and take it easy.
Poscente writes about how speed can give you more time to do what you want. Not with a reckless speed, but with an intelligent speed, a speed that allows you to invest your time in alignment with your values.
Ways to cut time on the crap, and do more of what you love.
As a manager, this means I get to invest more time coaching my team, helping them create and achieve their goals, and less time on mindless meetings and pointless presentations.
Want to test drive the book before you pick up your own copy? No problem!
Vince offers a quick start guide to using this great book for you called Tips to Succeed. He’s also got a great weekly newsletter called Full Speed Ahead, which I subscribe to and greatly enjoy because it offers fast tips I can use RIGHT NOW to be a better manager and a better person.
Pick up a copy of Age of Speed today.
Better yet, pick up 2 copies…1 for you, and 1 for your manager, so you both can do more with less time.
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The way that’s worked for me is fix time, flex scope.
The key of course is figuring out how to right-size the value and chunk it down so you actually have “cuttable” scope. (… and the secret to cuttable scope is scenarios)
I’ll admit, the first couple years was lots of learning curves across lots of teams. At this point though, I wouldn’t do it any other way, especially in today’s economy.
I think the biggest part of “speed” or working smart, or whatever the current term is figuring out which activities actually produce the best results. My biggest struggle.