Partnering Leadership 121 The Power of Subtraction: How You Can Do More With Less by Starting a Stop Doing List | Mahan Tavakoli Partnering Leadership Insight
In this episode of Partnering Leadership, Mahan Tavakoli shares an unlikely goal-setting strategy for your team in the year 2022, subtracting goals instead of adding more. In addition, Mahan shares insights from Leidy Klotz's book Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less on why eliminating certain goals will lead you to achieve more and have a more significant impact.
Some highlights:
- Setting new year goals in personal, professional, and organizational angles
- Why you should stop adding goals and instead start subtracting them
- Why removing goals and priorities is so tricky but necessary.
- The power of subtraction: going beyond just saying no and reflecting on what needs to be eliminated
- Starting a "stop doing" list and an action plan to start being intentional with subtraction
Mentioned:
- Daniel Kahneman, Nobel Price Winning psychologist and father of behavioral economics
- Patrick James McGinnis, venture capitalist and author best known for coining the term "fear of missing out" or "FOMO."
- Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less by Leidy Klotz
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