Getting Results the Agile Way: A Personal Results System for Work and Life
J.D. Meier
Language: English
Pages: 272
ISBN: 0984548203
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
In Getting Results the Agile Way, author J.D. Meier introduces Agile Results®-a simple system for meaningful results! It's a systematic way to achieve both short- and long-term results in all aspects of your life-from work to fun. It offers just enough planning to get you going, but makes it easy to change your course as needed. It also provides fresh starts for your day, week, month, and year. Even if you already use another time management system, Agile Results can supplement it to increase your impact and sense of fulfillment. In today's world, change happens quickly; learn how to be flexible and responsive to new opportunities. Don't just check off tons of stuff from your to-do list; do the things that make a difference. Stop trudging your way through life; bolster your energy with habits that will carry you forward each day. Quit sacrificing your personal life for your work life (or vice versa); give each facet of your life its due and find balance. In other words, learn the skills to go the distance in an ever-changing world. The beauty of Agile Results is that you don't have to adopt the entire system to see the benefits; just start with the following three basic tenets. First, adopt The Rule of 3 and you avoid being overwhelmed and become mindful of your results. Second, adopt the Monday Vision, Daily Outcomes, Friday Refection pattern and you set the wheels in motion for weekly results while giving yourself a fresh start each day and each week. Third, set up boundaries for your Hot Spots and begin to experience work-life balance. When you're ready for more, flip through the chapters to learn how to use stories to design your day, week, month, and year; how to find your motivation; how to improve your productivity; and many more. Agile Results is a time-tested system that J.D. Meier has honed through his years at Microsoft: learning from some of the best minds, leading virtual teams, and mentoring people around the world. It is a system he can bet on time and again. This guide is the playbook for getting results that he wishes somebody had given to him so many years ago. Now, he's sharing it with you.
The simplest way is to evaluate your monthly results. Simply list your key accomplishments and progress each month. You can then evaluate your immediate results against the bigger picture. Three months in, are you a quarter there? Six months in, are you halfway there? Or, do you have a specific block of time when you’ll achieve your results. For example, to take my “epic adventure” I blocked off October as the month to make it happen. Question: What are examples of a good yearly goal?
as specific, situational, and temporary. Remember that growth can feel awkward at times. Be assured, however, that your confidence and motivation does increase as you move through the four stages of competence and find your flow. Be careful whether you internalize or externalize your success, and whether you chalk things up to luck. A healthy view on good luck is to view it as skill and opportunity coming together. Appendix In This Part: Cheat Sheets. Summarizes key information into
you have a map for your results. You can use Agile Results for work or home or anywhere you need to improve your results in life. Agile Results is compatible with and can enhance the results of any productivity system you already use. Agile Results at a Glance This is a bird’s-eye view of Agile Results. Figure 2.1 Agile Results at a Glance As mentioned earlier in the guide, Agile Results is a system for work and life. It’s an adaptable productivity system focused on outcomes
comprehensive clarity to sort through the often confusing cloud of complexity and find the real opportunity in our lives. —Dr. Rick Kirschner, bestselling author, speaker, trainer, coach, The Art of Change LLC J.D. is the go-to-guy for getting results, and Agile Results demonstrates his distinct purpose—he shows how anyone can do anything, better. This book has simple, effective, powerful tools and ideas that are easy enough for everyone to apply in their work and lives, so that they get the
comprehensive clarity to sort through the often confusing cloud of complexity and find the real opportunity in our lives. —Dr. Rick Kirschner, bestselling author, speaker, trainer, coach, The Art of Change LLC J.D. is the go-to-guy for getting results, and Agile Results demonstrates his distinct purpose—he shows how anyone can do anything, better. This book has simple, effective, powerful tools and ideas that are easy enough for everyone to apply in their work and lives, so that they get the