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Simple, Swift, Sweeping ⇒ How to Be Extraordinarily Effective ⇒ How to Be Extraordinary Across-the-Board ⇒ How to Read Less, Yet Understand More ⇒ How to Do Less, Yet Accomplish More ⇒ How to Leapfrog the Crowd ⇒ 
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The Swiss Army Knife
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Steve Jobs said, "When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions. Most people just don't put in the time or energy to get there." We put in the time and energy to peel off the layers. And we arrived at an uncommonly simple, amazingly elegant solution for excelling in business — Skills 2.0 — Just one simple list. Just 7 elegant questions. To become uncommonly effective and extraordinary across-the-board. |
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You're only as effective
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If there's one word that describes most people it is … problems. They have people problems, time problems, project problems, scheduling problems, strategy problems. They spend so much time solving problems, all the time-management "secrets" in the world can't help them get anything done  In contrast, the extraordinary ask the right questions upfront. They prevent problems. This is their secret for getting a whole lot done in a whole lot less time. Small shift. Big difference. With the Skills 2.0 Online Program, you get the opportunity to make these few, simple questions a way of life for you so that you prevent problems routinely |
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You're only as strong
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The reason most people never become extraordinary is because they don't master all the skills they need — they typically learn some answers here, a few answers there. But this is just not enough. If you're weak in even one skill, it will hold you back  Consider the extraordinary — they are uncanny at getting things right the first time … uncanny at inspiring others … uncanny game-changers … uncanny at getting things done. They're uncanny pretty much across-the-board. The only practical way to get up to that level is to shift your focus to questions. Because there are only a few questions. And all you need to learn is how to
those very same questions to become uncanny at a very wide range of skills. And that's what you'll learn with the Skills 2.0 Online Program |
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How to Read a Lot Less |
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Learn to separate the relevant
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You don't need to read more. You need to understand more. You don't need more information. You need to understand what will make the biggest difference for you. And you can do that even with very little information.  This distinction is understood very clearly by only the extraordinary. They also understand that reading too much squeezes out understanding. So, how do you learn to read a whole lot less while understanding a whole lot more? By shifting your focus from answers to questions. And the Skills 2.0 Online Program is designed to help you make this very important shift |
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How to Do a Lot Less |
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Still sweating over multiple initiatives?
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Most people have many plates spinning … but not much in the way of actual accomplishment.  The extraordinary are the exact opposite. Just one or two plates. A lot accomplished. The extraordinary just don't work on many of the objectives that everybody else sweats over. That's because the extraordinary accomplish those objectives as a byproduct or a side benefit of their main initiatives. No extra effort necessary. But just how can you pull this off? The same way the extraordinary pull it off. By learning to ask the right questions upfront. And that's what you will learn through your Skills 2.0 Online Program |
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How to Leapfrog |
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Next Session begins — Tue, May 22nd
The Swiss Army Knife
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How is it possible to get so much with so little?
With Skills 2.0, you learn at a completely different level from everyone else.
It's like the difference between becoming a cook … and becoming a master chef.
Both learn the same things — but with a small shift in focus. And that small shift in focus makes all the difference in the world.
Ordinary cooks learn recipes. There are millions of recipes — too many to remember. And when you rely on answers and best practices put together by others, it limits your bandwidth. This holds you back from greatness.
Master Chefs, on the other hand, focus on understanding the underlying ingredients. There are only a handful of ingredients. Over time, your understanding of these ingredients deepens. It expands your bandwidth, making you versatile in a wide variety of situations — and this cumulative mastery leads you to greatness.
Why no money-back guarantee?
Money-back guarantees are for those seeking instant or intellectual gratification.
Skills 2.0 is about sustained, cumulative growth.
If you're the instant- or intellectual-gratification type, Skills 2.0 is not for you.
→ You receive immediate access to all 7 questions, with examples of how to use each question for a variety of different skills
→ Every month, you receive 1 example of how to mix-and-match the 7 questions to gain proficiency in a business skill
→ Every month, you also receive 1 example of how to decipher a popular business book and distill it down to the 7 questions so you can separate what's relevant from what's not — and also, what should have been included, but was not
→ Every month, you receive 1 example of how to mix-and-match the 7 questions to gain proficiency in a business skill
→ Every month, you also receive 1 example of how to decipher a popular business book and distill it down to the 7 questions so you can separate what's relevant from what's not — and also, what should have been included, but was not
Most people in business today drown under the weight of their own complexity — committees, initiatives, meetings, training, projects, vision statements, mission statements, policies, procedures, manuals, rules, laws, best practices, methods, scripts and more.This is followed by reminders, refreshers, regurgitations, restructuring and more.
Very few understand that Excellence needs a foundation of Simplicity.
Simplicity is both a shield and a sword. As Steve Jobs said, "Once you get [to simplicity], you can move mountains.
The only way to truly appreciate the immense power of Simplicity is to make it an inherent and intrinsic part of how you do business. Use the Skills 2.0 Online Program as your guide.
Every time you hire the wrong person, you trigger a domino effect of problems that distract you — and others — for months, even years.In the same way, you trigger dominoes after dominoes with every poor communication, every bad strategy and every poor decision.
And while you're busy "managing" your time so you can solve all these problems, it's easy to forget the original source of your problems.
How much more effective would you be if, instead, you learned to prevent all these problems in the first place?
→ You receive immediate access to all 7 questions, with examples of how to use each question for a variety of different skills
→ Every month, you receive 1 example of how to mix-and-match the 7 questions to gain proficiency in a business skill
→ Every month, you also receive 1 example of how to decipher a popular business book and distill it down to the 7 questions so you can separate what's relevant from what's not — and also, what should have been included, but was not
→ Every month, you receive 1 example of how to mix-and-match the 7 questions to gain proficiency in a business skill
→ Every month, you also receive 1 example of how to decipher a popular business book and distill it down to the 7 questions so you can separate what's relevant from what's not — and also, what should have been included, but was not
You're only as strong as the weakest of all your skills
A few quick examples —
→ You'll never be strong at innovation unless you're also strong at selling your ideas — because otherwise, even your best ideas will flounder.
→ You'll never be effective with time unless you're also strong with people — because people problems is one of the biggest thieves of your time.
→ You'll never be strong at customer service unless you're also strong at solving problems — because if you can't solve your customers' problems, your service will always fall short.
These examples are just the tip of the iceberg.
As part of your Skills 2.0 Online Program, every month we'll look at a new skill — for example, Leadership, Innovation, Teamwork, Time Management, Customer Service, Selling, Negotiating, Strategy and more — and we'll illustrate how to mix-and-match the same 1 list of 7 questions to become uncommonly insightful at that specific month's skill.
In this way as the months progress, you'll learn how to become adept at using the 7 questions to ramp up on a very wide-range of inter-related skills.
In this way as the months progress, you'll learn how to become adept at using the 7 questions to ramp up on a very wide-range of inter-related skills.
Once you start looking at the world through the lens of Skills 2.0, you'll see immediately that:→ Most books contain a lot of information that will hold you back — no matter how interesting it sounds.
→ Some books contain some stuff that could propel you forward. But … through your grasp of the 7 Skills 2.0 questions, you already understood it all.
As part of your Skills 2.0 Online Program, we'll decipher 1 book every month — so that you can learn to gain a deep understanding of a very wide range of books and skills in this way … even as you read a lot less.
→ You receive immediate access to all 7 questions, with examples of how to use each question for a variety of different skills
→ Every month, you receive 1 example of how to mix-and-match the 7 questions to gain proficiency in a business skill
→ Every month, you also receive 1 example of how to decipher a popular business book and distill it down to the 7 questions so you can separate what's relevant from what's not — and also, what should have been included, but was not
→ Every month, you receive 1 example of how to mix-and-match the 7 questions to gain proficiency in a business skill
→ Every month, you also receive 1 example of how to decipher a popular business book and distill it down to the 7 questions so you can separate what's relevant from what's not — and also, what should have been included, but was not
Most people in business today focus on answers — such as best practices, rules, laws, techniques, habits, methods and scripts. But when you learn the same answers everyone else is learning, you also do what everyone else is doing. And you get lost in a sea of sameness.To simply stay in the game today, you must shift your focus on answers … and, instead, master how to ask the right questions. This is the only way you'll find answers and practices that others haven't even considered yet.
That's what Skills 2.0 Online Program is about. Anything less is just not good enough any more.