Power of An Hour E-Book

Dave Lakhani

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 271

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2010

Beschreibung

Praise for The Power of an Hour "The master at getting what you want from others now tells us howto get what we want from ourselves! This is really a great book,and I recommend it highly-for you, for your team, and for yourchildren." -Bob Burg, author, Endless Referrals "If you want to make predictable, systematic change in your life oryour business, buy this book. Each chapter is a stand-alone systemthat results in powerful change . . . fast." -David Hancock, The Entrepreneurial Publisher, CEO, Morgan JamesPublishing "Dave's methods helped me take my business from $0 to $10 millionin sales.If you're a creative business owner who wants total focusand massive success, run, don't walk, and get this book!" -Stephanie Frank, author, The Accidental Millionaire "The Power of an Hour is a mighty powerful way to sort out yourfinancesby first sorting out yourself!" -Mark Joyner, #1 bestselling author, The Irresistible Offer "The disease of the twenty-first century, no matter who you are orwhat you do,is Time Deficit Disorder. Dave Lakhani offers abrilliant solution in this book.Get it and take the cure-you'll besurprised how much better you feel!" -David Garfinkel, author, Customers on Demand

Leseprobe

Table of Contents

Title Page

Copyright Page

Dedication

Foreword

Preface

Acknowledgments

About the Author

CHAPTER 1 - The Power of an Hour

Change

How the Power of an Hour Works

CHAPTER 2 - How to Focus—The Power in the Hour

Answer These Questions About Your Experience With Focus

The Fearsome Focus Process

A Few Tips for Focus Success

One Hour Action Plan

CHAPTER 3 - How to Think Critically

What Is Critical Thinking?

How to Think Critically

CHAPTER 4 - How to Think Creatively

Encountering Einstein

Spend Your Hour Creatively

Warning

One Last Exercise

Crazy Ideas into Action

One-Hour Action Plan

CHAPTER 5 - Personal Hour 1—Set the Stage

Three Steps to Setting the Stage

Three Steps to Setting the Stage Expanded

CHAPTER 6 - Personal Hour 2—Identify the Blocks

Identifying Blocks

Identifying Blocks Exercise

One-Hour Action Plan

CHAPTER 7 - Personal Hour 3—Destroy the Blocks

The Four-Step Block Buster Plan

One-Hour Action Plan

CHAPTER 8 - Personal Hour 4—Relationships

Energy Thieves

Categorizing Relationships

How to Categorize Your Relationships by Time

One-Hour Action Plan

CHAPTER 9 - Personal Hour 5—Finances

Prior to Setting up Any Plan

Setting up Your Plan

Investment Basics You Should Know, According to James Berman

One-Hour Action Plan

CHAPTER 10 - Personal Hour 6—Self-Improvement

Four Reasons Self-Improvement Efforts Typically Fail

Determining the Areas of Your Life to Focus on First

Ideas for Self-Improvement That You May Want to Develop

How to Create Continuous Self-Improvement

One-Hour Action Plan

CHAPTER 11 - Personal Hour 7—Mental Vacation

How to Make Your Mental Vacations Powerful

One-Hour Action Plan

CHAPTER 12 - Personal Hour 8—Envisioneering: Creating a Master Life Vision

Hidden Secret of Manifestation Revealed

Power Questions to Jumpstart Your Master Life Vision

Final Steps to Success

One-Hour Action Plan

CHAPTER 13 - Personal Hour 9—Overcome Your Fear and Reinvent Yourself

The Fear Factor

How to Overcome Fear

How to Determine Your Educated Action Steps

How to Reinvent Yourself

One-Hour Action Plan

CHAPTER 14 - Business Hour 1—Finding Your Business Focus

Breaking out the Operational Units

Power Questions for Finding Business Focus

Open Your Eyes

Measure Your Improvement

The Power of Finding Your Business Focus

One-Hour Action Plan

CHAPTER 15 - Business Hour 2—Time Management

The Discipline of Time Management

Time Killers

The Value of Your Time

Advice from a Sergeant

The Secret to Managing Time

Managing Your Time

One-Hour Action Plan

CHAPTER 16 - Business Hour 3—Management

Creating and Articulating Your Vision

Creating Your Business Culture

One-Hour Action Plan

CHAPTER 17 - Business Hour 4—Sales and Marketing

Unique Differentiator

Advertising

Public Relations

One-Hour Action Plan

CHAPTER 18 - Business Hour 5—Customer Experience

Finding Our Exceptional Experience

One-Hour Action Plan

CHAPTER 19 - Business Hour 6—Making Connections

Three Types of Connections

Maintaining Connections

Connecting

Letting Relationships Die

One-Hour Action Plan

CHAPTER 20 - Business Hour 7—Mentoring

Mentoring Is:

Mentoring Is Not:

Whom Should You Mentor?

Developing the Person You Mentor

Ending the Relationship

One-Hour Action Plan

CHAPTER 21 - Business Hour 8—Give Something Back

One-Hour Action Plan

CHAPTER 22 - Business Hour 9—The Final Hour

What Should Be Systemized

How to Create Effective Systems

What to Do Once You’ve Documented Your Systems

How to Use Your System Books

What Can Be Systemized?

One-Hour Action Plan

CHAPTER 23 - Call It a Day

Other Power Hours

Index

Copyright © 2006 by Dave Lakhani. All rights reserved.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

Lakhani, Dave, 1965-

The power of an hour: business and life mastery in one hour a week / Dave

Lakhani. p. cm.

Includes index.

ISBN-13: 978-0-471-78093-9 (cloth) ISBN-10: 0-471-78093-6 (cloth)

1. Executive ability. 2. Success in business. 3. Organizational change.

I. Title.

HD38.2.L345 2006 658.4’09--dc22

2005033008

This book is dedicated with love to Stephanie and Austria, who make my life the wonder and joy it is today.

It is also dedicated to my family: Suleman Lakhani, Pavreen Lakhani, Jehan Lakhani, and Imran Lakhani.

Finally, to my very good friends, MSG Dennis Stockwell, Al Murray, and Mark Ernst.

Foreword

When you carefully study the most successful businesses in the world or the most successful people, as I have, you’ll see that they have one thing in common . . . a drive to incrementally improve every day, every month, every year. And when you look at people who would be successful or who have businesses that could be successful but aren’t, you see them struggle because they are unclear or unsure about what to focus on. They know that they should be taking some action, but they don’t know where to start. They continue to do the same things every day. They are paralyzed, and inaction kills.

This book solves that problem in a very actionable way.

Focus, consistency, and action.

Those are the keys to growing your business or yourself.

But let me ask you one powerful question, and I want you to answer it honestly. Do you know exactly what you could focus on for one hour that would dramatically change your life or your business?

The Power of an Hour reveals the most important things that you must do to develop focus, it compels you to action, and it gives you the master plan for consistent movement forward in your business or your life.

Anyone who reads this book and applies the ideas inside will hold the master keys to creating incremental improvements in business and personal success every day in every crucial area of life and business. The Power of an Hour does an amazing job of breaking down critical personal and business issues (which are nearly always tied closely together) into very clear focus points that allow you to choose what is most important for you to focus on and to have the tools you need to create tremendous momentum.

As you read The Power of an Hour and begin focusing for an hour at a time, you’ll experience amazing results. As you continue to practice, you’ll do something else: You’ll condition your mind and you’ll learn how to focus, create momentum, and improve fast.

Take this book with you right now and read it.

Then, spend one hour in Fearsome Focus (which you’ll learn more about in the book) and focus on the most important chapter in the book for you. Stay focused on momentum and achievement. Incremental improvement will be yours, and that very improvement will allow you to dominate your market and yourself.

So, I want to ask you again: Do you know exactly what you could focus on for one hour that would dramatically change your life or your business?

I strongly suggest that you start by reading this book.

Then, pick the most important hour of focus from the book and get started.

You’ll be glad you did, and your business will be glad you did.

And you’ll finally understand what it means to work on your business or your life, not just in it.

Take action now.

—T. Harv Eker Author of the New York Times bestseller Secrets of the Millionaire Mind

Preface

This book is like no other business book or personal development book you’ve ever read and I’m proud of that. The last thing you need is another formulaic book you could have written yourself. This book is holistic; it addresses both personal and business issues because there is no separation between the two. If one side suffers, by necessity so does the other.

This book is different because it’s designed to work with a busy executive’s or business owner’s schedule. Each chapter is meant to stand alone and offers a complete how-to process from start to finish. Use it an hour at a time or a project at a time but, most important, use it.