num_pages: 239
description: 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 goalsand 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 hoursbut 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 to finally break out of the frenetic day-to-day routine and transform your life and your career.
language: English
title: The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World
publisher: Harvard Business Review Press