Short term for me is like, ok, to day right now, versus to morrow or this week. Long term starts to fit into one month, one quarter, one year, five years. A woman named kim cantergiani decided that she wanted to up the antie on he self by creating a poundithon campaign. She got all her friends to pledge a certain donation for every pound that she lost to the local battered women's shelter. That was what it took to actually enable her to take the steps that she knew she wanted to but had been really difficult for her in the past.
Dorie Clark is an Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and a Visiting Professor for IE Business School in Madrid. She has guest lectured at Harvard Business School, the Harvard Kennedy School, Stanford University's Graduate School of Business, the Wharton School, the MIT Sloan School of Management, and more.
Her new book is The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World. In it she 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 to give long term strategy to your goals.
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