The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World

· Harvard Business Press
4.0
3 reviews
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256
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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 goals—and 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 hours—but 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 immense: to finally break out of the frenetic day-to-day routine and transform your life and your career.

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4.0
3 reviews
Kristina Beuthner
September 24, 2021
The Long Game is an enchanting book of approx. 135 pages of the journey of Work and Life, and what it takes to survive and be successful in the long term, playing the Long Game. The book is full of real narratives of people, like you and me, telling their story and what they have learnt. Dorie summarizes these with wit, precise words, subtle summaries and hits the nail on the head with the “Remember” notes. I loved the weighted words eg “interstitial moments”, “parse my concerns”, and the story-telling tone! Often, she also tells her own story, citing how failures/ experiences can work for you, how success comes “when you make enough attempts”. You learn so much, appreciating the plausible bridges, and contemplating the fresh knowledge to reach your goal. You need to read this, as it will show you that perseverance pays off, the “long” journey is worth it and that your destination is real.
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Nishay Shah
March 25, 2024
Most of the book was just the author listing off her personal accomplishments and the accomplishments of her clients... a lot of extra fluff. One paragraph would have actual content, the followed by 5 paragraphs of fluff. Without the fluff the book would be a lot easier to follow.
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About the author

Dorie Clark is a consultant and keynote speaker who teaches executive education at Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and Columbia University's Graduate School of Business. She is the author of Entrepreneurial You, Reinventing You, and Stand Out. The New York Times has described Clark as an "expert at self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives." Her books have been translated into eleven languages. Learn more and download your free self-assessment at dorieclark.com.

You can find more about Dorie Clark at:
dorieclark.com
twitter.com/dorieclark
linkedin.com/in/doriec

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