The Power of Preeminence – High performance principles to accelerate your business and career
Paperback Engels 2017 1e druk 9789462761858Samenvatting
If you want to accelerate your business and career and stand out like a tall giraffe surrounded by tiny field mice, now is the time to get serious and get going.
In this book, high performance expert Paul Rulkens offers the best ideas, insights and techniques to get everything you can out of everything you have -- from business growth to maximizing your own performance.
In The Power of Preeminence you will learn the critical skills and inside secrets to:
- Focus on the few things necessary for business success
- Dramatically grow your business and career
- Achieve twice the results in half of the time
- Strategically quit your way to achieve big goals
- Communicate anything to anyone
- Quickly and cheaply innovate and outsmart your competition
- Rapidly build essential high-performance habits
- Become part of the top 10 percent in your professional field
Specificaties
Lezersrecensies
Inhoudsopgave
Who should read this book?
About this book
1. The razor’s edge
Achieving Preeminence
The secret of the razor’s edge
Why are some people or businesses wildly successful?
Future pacing
Conscious versus subconscious brain
Accessing the subconscious brain
Imagine wild success
The Columbus principle
The 10-goal exercise
2. Stepping out of the hamster wheel
Me, Inc.
In versus on
Marketing, innovation and strategy
In versus on: accelerate your business
In versus on: accelerate your career
In versus on: the final secret
3. Preeminent strategy principles
Mindsets
Needs versus wants
Strategic focus areas for Preeminence
Preeminent strategies for business growth
Risk reversal
Opportunity costs
The danger of one
The positive power of negative preparation
Fungus, giraffe or sidekick
4. Preeminent marketing principles
Referrals
The velvet rope policy
Raise your fees
Educate your marketplace
Buy your customer
Fall in love with your clients
Move to a sweet spot
The magic of a customer list
5. Preeminent innovation principles
Why the majority is always wrong
Breaking industry standards
Portable memory bank
Freenoting
The 20 ways thinking technique
Mindmapping
Cornell note taking
The mastermind group
6. The power of strategic quitting
The mindset of strategic quitting
Delegation
Elimination
The problem with classic priority setting
Outsourcing
Systemization
7. Increase performance, not potential
Theory of constraints
Decision making
Project management: good, cheap, fast
Overcoming procrastination
Serendipity
21-day habit
8. Communicate anything to anyone
CLEAR communication
Learning styles
The power of know-feel-do
Communication styles
Open with impact
Executive communication
The perfect pitch
Feed forward
9. The incredible time machine
The mindset
The 13 building blocks
10. Why smart people do stupid things
The Dunning-Kruger effect
The God complex
The endowment effect
The Gell-Mann amnesia effect
Thinking in reverse
The dead horse fallacy
The SETI fallacy
The pre-mortem
Sustainable high performance
11. Final thoughts
12. Getting started
50 books to achieve Preeminence
Acknowledgments
About the author
Index
Rubrieken
- advisering
- algemeen management
- coaching en trainen
- communicatie en media
- economie
- financieel management
- inkoop en logistiek
- internet en social media
- it-management / ict
- juridisch
- leiderschap
- marketing
- mens en maatschappij
- non-profit
- ondernemen
- organisatiekunde
- personal finance
- personeelsmanagement
- persoonlijke effectiviteit
- projectmanagement
- psychologie
- reclame en verkoop
- strategisch management
- verandermanagement
- werk en loopbaan