As maker entrepreneurs, we often feel crazy amounts of pressure to make more stuff and check off boxes, often without considering the enduring significance and long-term impact of what we are creating. Sure, it's great to have sales every day, but they really don't matter unless they are tied to outcomes that make a long-term business difference. In her book, The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World, author Dorie Clark invites us to break this cycle by connecting our daily actions more with long-term purpose than short-term gains.
While we all give lip service to the benefits of taking small steps, this book promises to give us actual principles and rewarding frameworks that help us make better use of our time so we can enjoy long-term success and happiness. You want that, right?
What you'll learn …
In addition to enjoying a fresh and affirming entrepreneurial perspective, here are some of the things you'll learn by reading this book with us:
- How to discipline yourself to do small things, incrementally over time, that lead to lasting success
- Why it's important to resist popular culture in favor of clarifying what's most important to you
- What to do to turn the same 24 hours we all have into the long-term gains that matter most to you
- … and so much more!
Reading Plan
The reading plan progresses in our private Entrepreneur Member Facebook Group.
The graphic below displays our easy reading schedule.
About the Author: Dorie Clark
Dorie Clark is a strategy consultant, executive coach, and keynote speaker who has worked with clients including Google, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, Fidelity, Yale University, the IMF, and the World Bank. She has been twice been named one of the Top 50 Business Thinkers in the World by Thinkers50, and the #1 Communication Coach in the World by the Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coaches Awards, as well as one of the Top 10 Communication Professionals in the World by Global Gurus.
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