The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months Author: Brian P. Moran | Language: English | ISBN:
B00CU9P31K | Format: PDF
The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks than Others Do in 12 Months Description
The guide to shortening your execution cycle down from one year to twelve weeks
Most organizations and individuals work in the context of annual goals and plans; a twelve-month execution cycle. Instead, The 12 Week Year avoids the pitfalls and low productivity of annualized thinking. This book redefines your "year" to be 12 weeks long. In 12 weeks, there just isn't enough time to get complacent, and urgency increases and intensifies. The 12 Week Year creates focus and clarity on what matters most and a sense of urgency to do it now. In the end more of the important stuff gets done and the impact on results is profound.
- Explains how to leverage the power of a 12 week year to drive improved results in any area of your life
- Offers a how-to book for both individuals and organizations seeking to improve their execution effectiveness
- Authors are leading experts on execution and implementation
Turn your organization's idea of a year on its head, and speed your journey to success.
- File Size: 666 KB
- Print Length: 208 pages
- Publisher: Wiley; 1 edition (May 15, 2013)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00CU9P31K
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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- Lending: Enabled
- Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #30,380 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)
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I really don't like to give negative reviews, but after reading this book I feel compelled to tell others who enjoy reading books about productivity that this is one you can skip. For those who have never read a book about goal-setting or managing your time, perhaps you'll find something of value in "The 12 Week Year." For the rest of us, however, the concepts of creating a vision, identifying goals, breaking those goals into actions, creating a weekly plan of execution and measuring your efforts is very basic and nothing new.
Basically, the author suggests that if you reduce the time horizon on your goals from a year to a 12 week period (what the business world refers to as a "quarter,") you'll accomplish more. I don't disagree with this concept- the less time we think have to get something done, the less time we typically waste. Beyond that, the book consists of nothing but repackaged, repetitive content already covered in books by others like Stephen Covey and Brian Tracy.
The book does, however, offer the reader additional support. For only $89.00 you can purchase the 12 Week Year Study Guide. For a mere $147.00 you can take the 12 Week Year Challenge. For just $197.00 you can purchase "Achieve," the 12 Week Year online system. Although I give the author 2 stars for the book, I give him 5 stars for his marketing machine.
By Rebecca Wise
There are many books addressing the challenge of getting things done. This short book offers one more method to complete a project or to achieve desired goals. The techniques are not new and the book is redundant by repeating "12 week" innumerable times. All the points could have been made in 10 pages at most.
By Julio M. Pow-Sang MD.
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