A Wall Street Journal Bestseller
Your personal goals need a long-term strategy.
It's no secret that we're pushed to the limit. Today's professionals
feel rushed, overwhelmed, and perennially behind. So we keep our heads
down, focused on the next thing, and the next, without a moment to
breathe.
How can we break out of this endless cycle and create the kind of
interesting, meaningful lives we all seek?
Just as CEOs who optimize for quarterly profits often fail to make the
strategic investments necessary for long-term growth, the same is true
in our own personal and professional lives. We need to reorient
ourselves to see the big picture so we can tap into the power of small
changes that, made today, will have an enormous and disproportionate
impact on our future success. We need to start playing The Long Game.
As top business thinker and Duke University professor Dorie Clark
explains, we all know intellectually that lasting success takes
persistence and effort. And yet so much of the relentless pressure in
our culture pushes us toward doing what's easy, what's guaranteed, or
what looks glamorous in the moment. In The Long Game, she argues for a
different path. It's about doing small things over time to achieve our
goals--and being willing to keep at them, even when they seem pointless,
boring, or hard.
In The Long Game, Clark shares unique principles and frameworks you
can apply to your specific situation, as well as vivid stories from her
own career and other professionals' experiences. Everyone is allotted
the same twenty-four hours--but with the right strategies, you can
leverage those hours in more efficient and powerful ways than you ever
imagined. It's never an overnight process, but the long-term payoff is
immense: to finally break out of the frenetic day-to-day routine and
transform your life and your career.
