Strategy For You: Building a Bridge to the Life You Want
Rich Horwath
Language: English
Pages: 160
ISBN: 1608322513
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
Do you have a plan for life? Think back on your life and how you arrived at where you are today. Did you envision where you wanted to be and then map out a strategy for getting there? Or, have you bounced around like a bumper car from one thing to the next? New research shows that only 15 per cent of adults have a written plan for their life. But what if you believe that you have more to offer? Much more. In this book, world-renowned business strategist Rich Horwath provides a five-step plan for building a bridge to the life you want. Using the foundational principles of business strategy, Horwath lays out the five steps you can take to create a more fulfilling and successful life: Discover: Uncover your purpose through insight; Differentiate: Identify your unique strengths; Decide: Allocate your resources; Design: Develop your action plan; and, Drive: Execute your plan. The book gives you the opportunity to maximise your true potential at work and at home. Are you ready to build a bridge to the life you want?
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daughter-in-law Emily saw the project through to completion for the famous bridge’s opening on May 23, 1883. With its heavy Gothic portals and aerial web of cables, the Brooklyn Bridge brought together the New York City boroughs of Brooklyn and Manhattan—physically, socially, and historically. To this day, the Brooklyn Bridge is a distinctive American emblem that has inspired writers, artists, and people from all walks of life. The Roeblings’ innovative style embodied the strength, determination,
logical next step is to prioritize the opportunities and threats. An Opportunity Matrix is a valuable method of evaluating resource allocation for the opportunities you’ve identified. It enables an effective allocation of resources by prioritizing opportunities based on two criteria: probability of achievement and impact. Basically, you’re asking yourself two questions for each opportunity: What’s the probability of successfully achieving the opportunity? If you do achieve the opportunity,
discourage you. The power of going forward when nothing around you supports that notion. The power of knowing you simply will not give up until you’ve reached your goals. Harry Potter series author J. K. Rowling’s first book was rejected by twelve publishers. Walt Disney was fired by a newspaper editor who told him he “lacked imagination.” Michael Jordan was cut from his high school varsity basketball team. Business magnate Donald Trump has said, “I was relentless, even in the face of the total
on a system for developing strategy for our lives, we’ll need a common understanding of what it means: Strategy is a plan for using your resources—time, talent, and money—to achieve your goals. Strategy is how we get from where we are today to where we want to be in the future—to the achievement of our goals. As discussed earlier, strategy is a bridge, taking us from one point to the next, spanning gaps and helping us to pass over barriers. It can enable us to reach our full potential in