Vì sao Bill Gates và Warren Buffett thành công đến vậy?
Miêu tả chỉ bằng một từ thôi, đó là 'Focus' (tập trung)
Nhưng không nên chỉ nhầm focus là danh từ, giống như John F. Kennedy thách thức NASA có thể đưa người lên Mặt trăng trong vòng một thập kỉ, hoặc chính Bill Gates với sứ mệnh đưa máy tính đến bàn làm việc của mọi người. Focus như này cũng tốt, vì clear và compelling: theo đuổi một mục tiêu duy nhất và không bị xao lãng; tuy nhiên, cẩn thận sai lầm giống Kodak chỉ nhằm theo đuổi mục tiêu tối ưu hóa phim máy ảnh truyền thống mà không ngờ đến sáng tạo đột phá (disruptive innovation) là máy ảnh số.
Do đó, cần chú ý đến focus như một động từ, not just something you have it is also something you do.
"Focus is nothing, focusing is everything.” ~Dwight D. Eisenhower
Giáo sư Henry Mintzberg đã hướng dẫn có 2 loại chiến lược:
- Deliberate strategy, where leaders develop a clear vision and map this to long, medium and short term goals (focus as a noun);
- Emergent strategy, where people respond to unanticipated problems and opportunities (focus as a verb).
Bill Gates áp dụng 'Think Week' từ những năm 1980, khi suy ngẫm về mở rộng đế chế Microsoft.
Twice a year, during the busiest and most frenetic time in the company’s history, he still created time and space to seclude himself for a week and do nothing but read articles (his record is 112) and books, study technology, and think about the bigger picture. Today he still takes the time away from the daily distractions of running his foundation to simply think. Whether you can invest two hours a day, two weeks a year, or even just five minutes every morning, it is important to make space to escape in your busy life.”
As Bill Gates has written, “No matter how much money you have, you can’t buy more time. There are only 24 hours in everyone’s day. Warren has a keen sense of this. He doesn’t let his calendar get filled up with useless meetings. On the other hand, he’s very generous with his time for the people he trusts. He gives his close advisers at Berkshire his phone number, and they can just call him up and he’ll answer the phone.”
“What’s important now?”
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You are at the top when you have made friends with your past, are focused on the present, and are optimistic about your future. ~ Zig Ziglar
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The why of urgent vs. important
// Seth Godin
You know you should be focusing on the long-term journey, on building out the facility, signing up new customers or finishing your dissertation.
But instead, there's a queue of urgent things, all justifiable, all requiring you and you alone to handle them. And so you do, pushing off the important in favor of the urgent.
Of course, everyone has this challenge, but some people manage to get past it. Even you, the last time you made a major move forward. Think about it--those urgencies from a few years ago: who's handling them now?
The reason we go for urgent is that it makes us feel competent. We're good at it. We didn't used to be, but we are now.
Important, on the other hand, is fraught with fear, with uncertainty and with the risk of failure.
Now that you know why, you can dance with it.
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What's on tonight?
// Seth Godin
Just a few decades ago, there were only three TV channels to watch.
Worse, it was pretty common for people to continue watching the same channel all night, rather than checking out the two alternatives. The 8 pm lead in was critical.
TV Guide, at one point the most valuable magazine in the United States, changed that posture. The entire magazine was devoted to answering just one question: What's on right now?
It turned consumption into a bit more of an intentional act. I mean, people were still hiding out, glued to their TVs, but at least they were actively choosing which thing to watch.
The internet, of course, multiplies the number of choices by infinity.
And our screen time has only gone up.
But here's the question: The next thing you read, the next thing you watch--how did you decide that it was next?
Was it because it was the nearest click that was handy?
Or are you intentional about what you're learning, or connecting with, or the entertainment you're investing in?
We don't have a lot of time. It seems to me that being intentional about how we spend our precious attention is the least we can do for it.