G.D. Meyer. The book “Agile for yourself: a system of personal achievements in work and life” - a brief summary. "Dynamic Results" system. Bird's-eye

The author talks about working at Microsoft, coaching, achieving results and the secrets of a vigorous start and end of the working day.
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I work at Microsoft and consider this company the best dojo for personal growth. The picture shows the view from my office window - on a sunny day you can see the mountains in the distance.

Basically, I like Evergreens. It feels like you're living in the forest.

What has always amazed me about Microsoft is the people: you can meet space engineers here; doctors; former teachers of any level; bestselling authors; small entrepreneurs and very large businessmen; and many more. Oh yeah, and did I forget to mention the small army of developers writing code that inspires people to change the world?

For the most part, people who work here want to get more out of life.

And that's what makes this place special... Wonderful people.

Promotion of ideas

At Microsoft, I hold the position of senior program manager. Program Manager is a kind of tech entrepreneur. Essentially, I am the one who sends the programs "on the big voyage", which means that I control the entire process from start to finish. In my understanding, the effectiveness of program management lies in a combination of focus on the needs of the client, the business as a whole, and the technical skills of the specialist.

I’m learning how to promote ideas professionally, and over time I’m getting better and better at it. As my mentor said, I get paid to “be smart and get results.”

Business transformation

I have been working in business transformation for the past two years. I learned amazing things about business combinations and information technologies. I have seen first-hand how many companies around the world are using cloud services to get back into business, reinvent their company and beat the competition.

I'm dating them executive directors and advise on business transformation issues. I mainly help develop scenarios for productive use of cloud services for enterprises.

One of the most important things I learned was how to properly use a change program to help an enterprise move to the cloud. I had to learn a lot of material about change management as well as implementation planning.

Grand Challenges

Life is always a test. Often a great challenge.

I view all my projects as great challenges. Thanks to this, I inspire my team to achieve world-class results. It forces us to think bigger and challenge ourselves to discover our best qualities. This is how we find the strength to solve big and complex tasks. That's why we're still in the game.

What matters is how I manage such huge challenges. I usually lead a team of people scattered all over the world. My strategy is to be clear about the desired outcome and achieve it as quickly as possible, while creating a learning system through which the team continually improves.
We are learning to better define true value. It is better to implement the assigned tasks. Better respond to changes and make predictions.
But the most important direction, in which we are constantly improving - enjoying work and achieving results at the same time.

Coaching and Mentoring

I shared my approach to leading great challenges in the book Getting Results the Agile Way. As I usually say, this is simple system to achieve significant results. By by and large, is a personalized results system that helps you unlock your potential.
I've recently taught this approach to several more teams at Microsoft. Again, the beauty of Microsoft is in action... the company successful people, coming together to support and encourage each other.

In addition, I am an active mentor. I typically lead a group of about ten Microsoft employees that I mentor.
My mentoring covers a variety of topics. Typically, people are interested in developing leadership skills, strategic skills and career development issues. Another popular topic is productivity.

For example, I helped several mentees master skills. When people find out that I receive more than 150 emails a day (not to mention various newsletters), and that I spend a maximum of 30 minutes a day on email and my inbox is always empty, they they want to know my approach. One day I showed my mentee how I do it, and the next day she sent me statistics about how much her productivity had jumped.

Ordering Threads Email usually entails streamlining the organization of the labor process, which is why it has such a significant impact.

Ability to value clients and business influence

At work, I am known for my ability to value clients and focus on their needs. I know how to achieve high results And high level execution. The value I bring to businesses as a software engineer is my ability to orchestrate, optimize processes, and drive results.

From an execution standpoint, one of my most significant contributions last year was turning a $1 million investment into approximately 75,000 hours of time saved and approximately $17 million in value.

While working at Microsoft, I created many programs and methodologies, and outlined even more. I studied in detail techniques for the rapid transfer and dissemination of professional skills. I have also filed patents related to information models and information architecture that will change the way we think about security in business applications and software generally.

My week

What is my work week like?

On Monday, I gather my team to determine three main tasks to complete this week. There are a lot of tasks, so questions about priorities arise no less. Often you need to use brainstorming to find the most important next step, decide between important and urgent tasks, and resolve impasses. But the main question is how to complete and fulfill these priority tasks.

Monday and Friday are the days I spend most of which away from the office. I try to connect with people inside and outside the organization to stay on top of things and focus on what really matters.

Friday is a day of summing up and reflection. Every Friday I ask myself what tasks to accomplish three tasks is progressing well, and what three tasks still need to be worked on. I ask my team to do the same because the goal is to continue doing the “successful” things. This is part of my training system.

Start of my day

Almost every day I am faced with difficult tasks. I must be able to handle challenges and show up good results. My typical work day starts very simply. I wake up, put on my running shoes, run for 20 minutes, take a shower, slowly eat breakfast and go to work. On the way to work, I listen to my favorite music and think about the three most important results I want to achieve today.

Note, however, no news, no mail, nothing other than getting yourself ready to work hard all day and being clear about your three most important tasks.

Throughout the day, my three results help me stay on track. They remind me of what really matters. They help in acceptance difficult decisions. They help me feel fulfilled throughout the day as I achieve them.

End of my day

If you work with full dedication and enthusiasm, it can be very difficult to stop.

My end-of-the-day template is pretty simple.
I get everything out of my head by just writing it down in Notepad, for example. I add unanswered questions and next steps, any agenda-related information I've been studying, in short, anything that worries me. I put it out of my head Blank sheet. After that I just save the document with today's date in the header. This process helps clear my mind.
Thus, I seem to say: “My work day is over for today.”

Heading home, I choose a route along secondary roads. I love the winding paths and the trees surrounding them on both sides. I try to leave work in such a way as to avoid traffic jams as much as possible. From time to time I try to change my schedule and change the time of arrival and departure from work in order, firstly, to liven up the already established schedule a little, and, secondly, to determine which schedule is better. It's amazing how much difference a seemingly insignificant 15 minutes can make.

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“Dynamic Results” is a system for achieving results in conditions of constant change. Life favors those who know what they want. Who knows how to highlight the main thing and focus on it. And who knows how to act and draw conclusions from the lessons that life presents. On this page we and the smartreading.ru project present to you summary books by J.D. Meyer “Agile for yourself”, where they discuss possible solutions this problem.

1. “Dynamic Results” system. Bird's-eye

These simple rules in practice turn into a System - a System of “Dynamic Results”. Here's how you can imagine it in large strokes:

Dynamic Results System

So, here are three simple steps, which will take you to a radically different level of efficiency:

1. Determine what results in what areas of your life you want to achieve.

To do this, outline Hot Spots- the most relevant areas of your life. These can be both areas that open up new opportunities, as well as “pain” points that require your time and effort. Hot spots form a kind of map of the overall situation, one glance at which allows you to see the whole picture of your life. Therefore, they should be recorded as briefly and clearly as possible. Hot spots, or spheres, are divided into 3 categories:

• Life (includes such areas as Intellectual, Physical, Career, Financial, Relationships and Entertainment),
• Work (Cases, Projects in progress, Accumulated issues),
• Personal (Cases, Projects at work, Accumulated questions).

Hot spots are interconnected, and a balance must be maintained between them. So, for example, too much “investment” of effort and time into the “Career” point can be fraught with a weakening of the “Relationships” or “Entertainment” sphere. Conversely, setting goals and planning for different hot spots at the same time allows you to achieve balance in all areas of your life. And the old dream of learning French, visiting school friends and finding a couple of hours a week for swimming becomes a reality.

1. Set your priorities.

This will help us "Rule of Three": When defining your main tasks, highlight only THREE main goals, three results that you want to achieve. Three achievements for a day, three for a week, three for a month and three for a year. Moreover, all these achievements must be interconnected: the results of the day must work on the results of the week, the results of the week - on the results of the month, and the results of the month - on the results of the year as a whole.

1. Make a plan focused on results.

To do this we use the rule: Monday - plans, every day - results, Friday - results. Every week starts from scratch. On Monday, determine three results for the coming week, every day - three results that need to be achieved for this day, and on Friday - summarize: which three results were achieved, and which three still require improvement. And draw conclusions! They should be used next Monday when planning the new week. All this fits into a simple table, by filling it out, you can put the rules described above into practice.

"Dynamic results" table

Let us explain the lower tier of this table.

1. Actions: here you enter your planned Daily Achievements, Weekly Achievements, Queue, Scenarios. 2. Help: Ideas, Notes, Monthly results. reference Information- this is something that does not belong to the to-do list, but is important for their implementation. 3. Calendar. It will become one of your main tools and will help you organize your time correctly.

• Keep a calendar of your intended results. When allocating your time, give priority to what is truly important. Spend more time in areas in which you are strong. Balance in “Hot Spots” is the main guarantor of success. Take time to implement plans and subsequently analyze the situation.

By filling out this table, you will see WHAT requires your attention in the most different areas life, WHICH you have set goals for yourself in each of them (in other words, what does your “happiness” look like in each of these categories) and HOW you are going to achieve this happiness - step by step, day by day. You will set yourself up not just for results, but for MEANINGFUL TO YOU result in SIGNIFICANT TO YOU spheres of life, and without bias in any one direction - for example, career or intellectual.

2. Values ​​and principles of “Dynamic Results”

The advantage of “Dynamic Results” is that it dynamism: it's not static, ready-made diagram, but a system that helps you find step by step mine correct course. Here are the principles and values ​​on which it is built and which are important to be guided by when applying it.

2.1. Ten values:

1. Action as a remedy for analysis paralysis: take action and don't get bogged down in analysis. The result will help you adjust your next steps.
2. The approach to achieving results is more important than the result. You cannot control the result, but you can control your approach, your attitude and methods of achieving it. Do not focus on results (after all, they are not always or cannot be achieved immediately), but consider them as feedback with your methods.
3. Energy is more important than time. In one hour that you work at full capacity, you will accomplish more than in many hours when you are tired.
4. Concentration over quantity. It is important not to redo as many things as possible, but to do really important things - important for the goals you have set. In addition, research shows what happens exactly where . When you highlight what is important and concentrate on this issue, the brain “brings out” all the relevant information for your consideration. So you see more possibilities and solutions.
5. Best the enemy of the good. stand in your way to achieving results.
6. Development mindset vs. predestination mindset. A growth mindset helps you overcome the helplessness of predestination, be more flexible and respond faster to changes, better absorb feedback and grow.
7. Result exceeds action. It's not how much you do that matters, but the result you get in the end. Definition desired result helps us focus our efforts. The secret to success is execution necessary steps to achieve the desired results.
8. Strengths more important than the weak. Instead of wasting time fixing the flaws, use the strengths instead. Compensate for your weaknesses by collaborating with those who are strong in this.
9. Systematicity instead of acting according to the situation. It is one thing to achieve results from time to time, and another thing to put your experience into a system that you can rely on, which you can study and improve.
10. Benefit is more important than clearing away rubble. Instead of just tackling your backlog of tasks, focus on what really brings you value.

2.2. Basic principles of "Dynamic Results"

1. Take action! Don't spend 80% of your time thinking leave only 20% for analytics, and act the rest of the time.
2. Vary your approach. Constantly review your approach to achieving results, try, experiment and discard what doesn't work.
3. . You change, the world changes, and you need to constantly learn to win in new realities.
4. A progressive approach to benefit. Let the results form one continuous stream. Maintaining that flow is much more productive than waiting for big successes at the end.
5. Less is more. Take only what you can “digest” don't chase quantity.
6. Clearly distinguish Actions from Help. Always separate these categories in your plans - this will help you distinguish the real plans from the “background noise”.
7. Set boundaries. The secret of efficiency is to spend required amount(time, effort) for the really necessary steps.
8. Fixed time, flexible tasks. Clearly allocate time for, and. Build your schedule around these vital points. At work, allocate your time by type of task: for example, an hour for administrative work, two for meetings, and three for project work. And - what you need to do is based on these time periods, without in any way varying the segments themselves.
9. The rhythm of the results. Step by step, drop by drop, let your results create a certain rhythm - the rhythm of achievements for the day, week, month, year. Later this rhythm will move to the level of habit, which will bring a feeling of real achievement.
10. Vary your results. Try, experiment - and result No. 3 will most likely be better than No. 2, and definitely better than No. 1.

3. Results - every day, week, month, year

Having studied the basic principles and laws of efficiency, you can proceed directly to planning. And it’s important to do this at several levels at once: at the level of the day, week, month and year. It is desirable that the planned results are interconnected and complement each other - this way you will have before your eyes global tasks and, at the same time, specific steps and time frames for their implementation. So let's start with planning the day.

3.1. Results - every day!

Line up every day so as to achieve maximum efficiency. Structure it according to these rules:

• Set up your day for success: In the morning, identify 3 achievements of the day and be sure to review your “Hot Spots”. Create starts of the day (eg shower, breakfast). This will get you in the mood for work. Write down your planned achievements. First - the worst. Start with the most unpleasant or difficult one, difficult task, free the rest of the day from worrying about him. Make the most of your productive hours. It is at this time that you will achieve the best results. Make time for what really matters.

“The more you get into the habit of setting aside time for what matters most, the greater your results will become.”

• Create a familiar ritual to end the day. “Take off” the burden of the day by writing down on paper where you stopped and where you need to start tomorrow. “Hang up your hat” - switch from work to home, entertainment and relaxation. Ask yourself 4 final questions: “What did I learn?”, “What did I improve?”, “What did I like?”, “What good and good did I do today?”

So, the secret to a successful day is simple: enjoy the usual ritual of starting the day, spend time achieving meaningful results, enjoy the process, make time for what really matters (including rest!) and end the day by unloading yourself in the most appropriate way. And remember, we start every day with a clean slate!

3.2. Results - every week!

The following principle will help you organize your week: Monday - plans, every day - results, Friday - results.” This way you will initially identify important achievements for the week, link them to daily achievements and be able to analyze your results at the end. The most important thing to do is to allocate time in each day for sleep, food and exercise. By investing in these issues, you are investing in yourself. These simple rules will help you optimize your week planning:

• Tabulate your week. This way you can see the big picture of your week. Immediately identify the main positions - food, sleep, sports, meetings, work time, free time, affairs.

	Mon.	Tue	Wed.	Thurs.	Fri.	Sat.	Sun.
7.00
8.00
9.00
10.00
11.00
12.00
13.00
…

Increase the number of productive hours. This can be done by allocating more time to the things you are good at or by regrouping your tasks. Add hours (time for free flight of the mind, for generating ideas or relaxing). If you consider yourself to be creative people- this is especially important for you. If not, consider this time a rest and an opportunity to reflect and have your head in the clouds. Make time for important things and fit it into your schedule. What is allocated specific time has a better chance of being completed. Add reserve time. Always leave small gaps between planned activities; life is full of surprises - take this into account in your schedule. Avoid the “all or nothing” attitude. Failures happen, but gradually, by analyzing, adapting and improving, you will come to the desired results. Take time to recharge. It is especially important to know what exactly “recharges” you: what relaxes some may exhaust others. Always take time to rest. Experiment to find out whether you are a morning person or a night owl. For some, daytime hours will be the most productive, and night hours will be the most creative. Some become night owls in winter and early risers in summer. Try it, look for “your” watch.

3.3. Results - every month!

When planning your month, it is important, again, to see it in its entirety: this helps you set priorities and concentrate on achieving significant ones. To do this, summarize your month in the following table: To build it, and therefore to build a successful month, you will need to take only three steps: Step 1. Make a list of achievements for the month. Step 2. Set priorities: put your achievements into three categories - “Should”, “Should”, “Could”. This is a kind of queue of achievements in which “Should” comes first, then “Need” and in last place is “Could” or “Should”. Step 3. Reinforce every achievement certain week. The three main achievements of each week should work towards the three main results of the month.

3.4. Results - every year!

The two steps to a successful year are, first, to identify three great goals for the coming year, and second, to build an annual calendar map that will immediately show you the big picture. You will immediately see where you are going, see the relationship between work and rest, weekdays and holidays, see where there may be tense moments or even rush jobs, and plan months, weeks, days based on the overall picture. So,

• Identify your top three accomplishments for the coming year. These should be the top three things you would like to change in your life. this moment. Consider them as three cherished wishes that must certainly come true.

• Draw a diagram of the year. In the “Personal” column, enter all annual events (holidays, for example) and personal projects(for example, vacation), and in the “Work” column - significant start/end dates of projects, important work events, etc.

Example of the Year Scheme:

Month	Personal	Job
January
February	— Valentine's Day — Beginning of the football season. Will you train?
March		— Launch of Project 1.
April
May		— Beginning of budget planning for next year
June	— Spring spring-cleaning(as soon as the weather permits) - Children go on vacation
July		— Most likely, some positions will appear, some will be eliminated next year
August		— Annual summing up
September	— Children go to school
October	— Wife’s birthday — Sister’s birthday — Put away boats and water skis for the winter
November	— Thanksgiving with family — Prepare for ski season — good time to prepare things that we will sell on eBay before Christmas
December	— Christmas shopping — Children's holidays	— Many employees will take vacations, prepare for limited team assistance

Thus, by planning your achievements on the scale of the day, week, month and year, you will be able to keep the whole picture before your eyes and at the same time vary your plans and goals depending on the results obtained and changing circumstances at the micro level - at the level of the day and week .

Conclusion

“Dynamic Results” is a system for planning achievements in conditions of constant change. To achieve truly meaningful results, it is important to understand which areas of your life need improvement, what specific results you need to achieve and what the specific steps will be. Moreover, all these positions need to be considered in dynamics - and your plans and actions should be adjusted in accordance with the experience that you gain as you move towards the desired result. To start using Dynamic Results, you need to take just three steps:

1. Identify your “Hot Spots” to achieve balance between all aspects of your life.
2. Follow the “Rule of Three” - highlight three results that you want to achieve - in a day, a week, a month and a year. Set your priorities this way!
3. Apply the scheme “Monday - plans, every day - results, Friday - results”; it will help fill your plans with meaning and “sharpen” them to achieve truly important results.

The ten values ​​and principles of Dynamic Results will provide you with guidance for effective planning and prioritization. Here are the main recommendations on which they are based:

• spend more time on action, less time on analysis;
• Constantly experiment and adapt your methods to changing conditions;
• pay more attention to what is truly important to your achievements and what is the subject of your passion;
• maintain balance in different areas life;
• Set clear boundaries, especially temporary ones.

Use the Dynamic Results practice, week, month and year. The achievements of the day that you strive for should work towards the achievements of the week, the month and, ultimately, the three global achievements of the year - the fulfillment of your cherished desires. Always keep the big picture of your life and big goals in mind.

Rhythm modern life forces people to devote most of their time to work. For the effective distribution of precious minutes and maximum productivity, personal efficiency and time management systems are constantly being created. Nevertheless, many do not have time to complete the tasks planned for the day, plunging into the swamp of tasks postponed “for tomorrow”.

The result is a total lack of time. Overwhelm brings worry and stress into your life, and your goals get further and further away. It seems like breaking out vicious circle impossible.

“Agile Results: how to get 3 times more done” is a video course about a planning system that is not strictly tied to tasks. The author of the system, Microsoft top manager G.D. Mayer, tested the effectiveness of his technique in various fields activities around the world. Project management specialist Andrey Shantarin tried Agile Results on himself and, inspired by the results, received permission from the creator to distribute this course.

Agile Results: how to properly allocate your time?

Agile Results helps you correctly set life priorities and select the right tasks to achieve ultimate goal. The technique allows you to focus on the 3 most important tasks for you, and implementation in life is quick and comfortable.

Benefits of Agile Results:

• Flexible methodology with the ability to integrate with any personal effectiveness system.
• Helps clear the mind of all unnecessary things and bring an element of creativity into the work.
• Aimed at diversified personality development.
• Places emphasis on goals rather than the means to achieve them.
• Contains proven tools to combat procrastination.

Agile Results has allowed hundreds of people to achieve what they previously lacked the energy and time to achieve, and achieve balance in work and play. Implement the G.D. Mayer method into your life and feel the changes in just 7 days!

The creator and former head of the Mann, Ivanov and Ferber publishing house, Mikhail Ivanov, launched a new platform Smart Reading, which publishes summaries of interesting non-fiction books.

As part of the partnership with the platform, the CPU publishes a brief summary of the main thoughts from the book by Microsoft business program director G.D. Meyer “Agile for yourself: a system of personal achievements in work and life” - about how to correctly set goals for yourself and competently and flexibly distribute forces for their achievements.

The main idea of ​​the book: “In today’s world - constantly changing and dynamic - the winner is the one who is able to quickly respond to changes, who presents his goals and knows how to correctly invest his energy, time and effort in solving the right tasks.”

Introduction

Perhaps you used to plan to first finish school, then university, find a job where you could slowly but steadily grow, and someday retire with honor. Forget it! IN current conditions such measured plans are not destined to come true, but this does not mean that there is no need to plan at all - it’s just that now you need to adapt to new conditions, reconsider your goals and... continue to revise them again and again, evaluating the results and analyzing your path.

To achieve real results, it is not enough to keep up with changes; you need to learn how to use them for your own purposes. This is precisely why the “Dynamic Results” system was created, which gives step by step instructions to achieve them - in a day, week, month and even a year. The basis of success is the speed of reaction to changes.

In his work, JD Meyer offers a new approach to achieving results, simple and clear enough to immediately put into practice. It can be easily adjusted depending on your needs and combined with other efficiency techniques. The main idea of ​​the book: “In today’s world - constantly changing and dynamic - the winner is the one who is able to quickly respond to changes, who presents his goals and knows how to correctly invest his energy, time and effort in solving the right tasks.”

1. “Dynamic Results” system. Bird's-eye

“Dynamic Results” is a system for achieving results in conditions of constant change. Life favors those who know what they want. Who knows how to highlight the main thing and focus on it. And who knows how to act and draw conclusions from the lessons that life presents.

These simple rules in practice turn into a System - a System of “Dynamic Results”. Here's how you can imagine it in large strokes:

Dynamic Results System

So, here are three simple steps that will take you to a radically different level of efficiency:

1. Determine what results in what areas of your life you want to achieve

To do this, outline “Hot Spots” - the most relevant areas of your life. These can be both areas that open up new opportunities, as well as “pain” points that require your time and effort. Hot spots form a kind of map of the overall situation, one glance at which allows you to see the whole picture of your life. Therefore, they should be recorded as briefly and clearly as possible.

Hot spots, or spheres, fall into three categories:

• Life (includes such areas as “Intellectual”, “Body”, “Emotional”, “Career”, “Financial”, the sphere of Relationships and the sphere of Entertainment);
• Work (Cases, Projects in progress, Accumulated issues);
• Personal (Cases, Projects at work, Accumulated questions).

Hot spots are interconnected, and a balance must be maintained between them. So, for example, too much “investment” of effort and time into the “Career” point can be fraught with a weakening of the “Relationships” or “Entertainment” sphere. Conversely, setting goals and planning for different hot spots at the same time allows you to achieve balance in all areas of your life. And the old dream of learning French, visiting school friends and finding a couple of hours a week for swimming becomes a reality.

2. Prioritize

The “Rule of Three” will help us here: when defining the main tasks, highlight only three main goals, three results you want to achieve. Three achievements for a day, three for a week, three for a month and three for a year. Moreover, all these achievements must be interconnected: the results of the day must work on the results of the week, the results of the week - on the results of the month, and the results of the month - on the results of the year as a whole.

3. Make a plan focused on results

To do this, we use the rule: Monday - plans, every day - results, Friday - results. Every week starts from scratch. On Monday, determine three results for the coming week, every day - three results that need to be achieved for this day, and on Friday - summarize: which three results were achieved, and which three still require improvement. And draw conclusions! They should be used next Monday when planning the new week.

Ask yourself: If it were Friday, what would I want to see accomplished?

All this fits into a simple table, by filling it out, you can put the rules described above into practice.

"Dynamic results" table

Let us explain the lower tier of this table.

1. Actions: here you enter your planned Daily Achievements, Weekly Achievements, Queue, Scenarios.
2. Help: Ideas, Notes, Monthly Results. Background information is something that does not belong to the to-do list, but is important for their implementation.
3. Calendar. It will become one of your main tools and will help you organize your time correctly.

• Keep a calendar of your intended results.
• When allocating your time, give priority to what is truly important.
• Spend more time in areas in which you are strong.
• Balance in “Hot Spots” is the main guarantor of success.
• Take time to implement plans and subsequently analyze the situation.

By filling out this table, you will see What requires your attention in various areas of life, which you have set goals for yourself in each of them (in other words, what does your “happiness” look like in each of these categories) and How you are going to achieve this happiness - step by step, day by day. You will set yourself up not just for results, but for significant to you result in significant to you spheres of life, and without bias in any one direction - for example, career or intellectual.

2. Values ​​and principles of “Dynamic Results”

The advantage of “Dynamic Results” is that it is dynamic: it is not a static, ready-made scheme, but a system that helps you find your right course step by step. Here are the principles and values ​​on which it is built and which are important to be guided by when applying it.

2.1. Ten values

1. Action as a cure for analysis paralysis: Take action so you don't get bogged down in analysis. The result will help you adjust your next steps.
2. The approach to achieving results is more important than the result. You cannot control the result, but you can control your approach, your attitude and methods of achieving it. Don't focus on the results (after all, they can't always be achieved or not immediately), but consider them as feedback from your methods.
3. Energy is more important than time. In one hour that you work at full capacity, you will accomplish more than in many hours when you are tired.
4. Concentration over quantity. It is important not to redo as many things as possible, but to do really important things - important for the goals you have set. Plus, research shows that what happens is where you focus. When you highlight what is important and concentrate on this issue, the brain “brings out” all the relevant information for your consideration. This way you see more possibilities and solutions.
5. Best the enemy of the good. Don't let perfectionism get in the way of your achievements.
6. Development mindset versus predestination mindset. A growth mindset helps you overcome the helplessness of predestination, be more flexible and respond faster to changes, better absorb feedback and grow.
7. Result comes before action. It's not how much you do that matters, but the result you get in the end. Defining the desired outcome helps us focus our efforts. The secret to success is taking the right steps to achieve the desired results.
8. Strengths are more important than weaknesses. Instead of wasting time fixing the flaws, use the strengths instead. Compensate for your weaknesses by collaborating with those who are strong in this.
9. Systematicity instead of acting according to the situation. It is one thing to achieve results from time to time, and another thing to put your experience into a system that you can rely on, which you can study and improve.
10. Benefit is more important than clearing away rubble. Instead of just tackling your backlog of tasks, focus on what really brings you value.

2.2. Basic principles of "Dynamic Results"

1. Follow the 80/20 principle! Don't spend 80% of your time thinking, leave only 20% for analytics, and act the rest of the time.
2. Vary your approach. Constantly reconsider your approach to achieving results, try, experiment and abandon what does not work.
3. Constant learning. You change, the world changes, and you need to constantly learn to win in new realities.
4. A progressive approach to benefit. Let the results form one continuous stream. Maintaining that flow is much more productive than waiting for big successes at the end.
5. Less is more. Take only what you can “digest”, don’t chase quantity.
6. Clearly distinguish “Actions” from “Help”. Always separate these categories in your plans - this will help you distinguish the real plans from the “background noise”.
7. Set boundaries. The secret of efficiency is to spend the required amount (time, effort) on the really necessary steps.
8. Fixed time, flexible tasks. Set aside clear time for food, sleep and exercise. Build your schedule around these vital points. At work, allocate your time by type of task: for example, an hour for administrative work, two for meetings, and three for project work. And make plans - what you need to do - based on these time periods, without in any way varying the periods themselves.
9. The rhythm of the results. Step by step, drop by drop, let your results create a certain rhythm - the rhythm of achievements for the day, week, month, year. Later, this rhythm will move to the level of habit, which will bring a feeling of real achievement.
10. Vary your results. Try, experiment - and result No. 3 will most likely be better than No. 2, and definitely better than No. 1.

3. Results - every day, week, month, year

Having studied the basic principles and laws of efficiency, you can proceed directly to planning. Moreover, it is important to do this on several levels at once: at the level of the day, week, month and year. It is desirable that the planned results are interconnected and complement each other - this way you will have before your eyes global tasks and, at the same time, specific steps and time frames for their implementation.

So let's start with planning the day.

3.1. Results - every day

Organize your every day to achieve maximum efficiency. Structure it according to these rules:

• Set up your day for success: In the morning, identify 3 achievements of the day and be sure to review your “Hot Spots”.
• Create a familiar ritual for starting the day (for example, shower, exercise, breakfast). This will get you in the mood for work.
• Write down your planned achievements.
• First - the worst. Start with the most unpleasant or difficult, complex task, free the rest of the day from worrying about it.
• Make the most of your productive hours. It is at this time that you will achieve the best results.
• Make time for what really matters (the more you get into the habit of making time for what matters, the more significant your results will become).
• Create a familiar ritual to end the day. “Take off” the burden of the day by writing down on paper where you stopped and where you need to start tomorrow. “Hang up your hat” - switch from work to home, entertainment and relaxation. Ask yourself 4 final questions: “What did I learn?”, “What did I improve?”, “What did I like?”, “What good and good did I do today?”

So, the secret to a successful day is simple: enjoy the usual ritual of starting the day, spend time achieving meaningful results, enjoy the process, make time for what really matters (including rest!) and end the day by unloading yourself in the most appropriate way. And remember, we start every day with a clean slate!

3.2. Results - every week

The principle “Monday - plans, every day - results, Friday - results” will help you organize your week. This way you will initially identify important achievements for the week, link them to daily achievements and be able to analyze your results at the end.

The most important thing to do is to allocate time in each day for sleep, food and exercise. By investing in these issues, you are investing in yourself.

These simple rules will help you optimize your week planning:

3.3. Results - every month

When planning your month, it is important, again, to see it as a whole: this helps you set priorities and concentrate on achieving significant goals. To do this, summarize your month in the following table:

To build it, and therefore to build a successful month, you will need to take only three steps:

Step 1. Make a list of achievements for the month.

Step 2. Prioritize: put your achievements into three categories - “Should”, “Should”, “Could”. This is a kind of queue of achievements in which “Should” comes first, then “Need” and in last place is “Could” or “Should”.

Step 3. Assign each achievement to a specific week. The three main achievements of each week should work towards the three main results of the month.

3.4. Results - every year

The two steps to a successful year are, first, to identify three great goals for the coming year, and second, to build an annual calendar map that will immediately show you the big picture. You will immediately see where you are going, see the relationship between work and rest, weekdays and holidays, see where there may be tense moments or even rush jobs, and plan months, weeks, days based on the overall picture.

Thus, by planning your achievements on the scale of the day, week, month and year, you will be able to keep the whole picture before your eyes and at the same time vary your plans and goals depending on the results obtained and changing circumstances at the micro level - at the level of the day and week .

Conclusion

“Dynamic Results” is a system for planning achievements in conditions of constant change. To achieve truly meaningful results, it is important to understand which areas of your life need improvement, what specific results you need to achieve and what the specific steps will be. Moreover, all these positions need to be considered in dynamics - and your plans and actions should be adjusted in accordance with the experience that you gain as you move towards the desired result.

To start using Dynamic Results, you need to take just three steps:

1. Identify your “Hot Spots” to achieve balance between all aspects of your life.
2. Follow the “Rule of Three” - highlight three results that you want to achieve - in a day, a week, a month and a year. Set your priorities this way!
3. Apply the scheme “Monday - plans, every day - results, Friday - results”; it will help fill your plans with meaning and “sharpen” them to achieve truly important results.

The ten values ​​and principles of Dynamic Results will provide you with guidance for effective planning and prioritization. Here are the main recommendations on which they are based:

• spend more time on action, less time on analysis;
• Constantly experiment and adapt your methods to changing conditions;
• pay more attention to what is truly important to your achievements and what is the subject of your passion;
• maintain balance in different areas of life;
• Set clear boundaries, especially temporary ones.

Use the Dynamic Results practice when planning your day, week, month and year. The achievements of the day that you strive for should work towards the achievements of the week, the month and, ultimately, the three global achievements of the year - the fulfillment of your cherished desires. Always keep the big picture of your life and big goals in mind.

Vika worked for a long time in a very large international company, but having a plan in her head to get married and have children by 30, she refused opportunities related to moving to another country or frequent business trips. Now she is a little over 30 and she has just found a man with whom she wanted to put a stamp in her passport, and neither of them are thinking about children yet. As a result, her current husband is planning the relocation.

I still remember idiotic questions at meetings with HR in my fourth year of university: “Where do you see yourself in 5, 10 years?” This was believed to help determine the level of ambition of a potential candidate. For example, five years ago, I headed the Digital marketing department in one of the coolest communication agencies in the CIS, traveled around the world, worked with Russian and Ukrainian companies, painted myself bright red, and smoked cigars. I could have guessed then that my plan would be to launch own business in interior design, dual motherhood, voluntary move to the suburbs, growing up on own terrace tomatoes, professional painting and selling your own paintings?

10 years ago I was organizing 402-meter auto races, wearing micro-PJ shorts with sequins, hanging out in nightclubs, drinking whiskey. The limit of my long-term planning was a trip to Formula 1 and the organization of even larger races. Rigid long-term planning is like blinders - it prevents you from reacting flexibly to changes in your own personality, its needs and interests. At trainings on personal growth and I was taught to set goals long term goals and plan small daily steps to achieve them. As a result, I was upset that the plan did not work out or I did not have the strength for it, and often the desire: after a while to implement it. All this made it difficult to grasp and take advantage of the opportunities that surrounded me “here and now.”

Any long-term planning is based on our current experience and interests, we do not take into account future opportunities at all. By setting rigid goals in advance, we limit ourselves in development, change, spontaneous turns, and movement in a new direction. Psychologists explain the craving for planning by fear of the unknown. I still check all major financial events with the help of calculations, although the calculations have never come true, and the plans were implemented, or they ceased to be relevant.

But besides inner world, the external environment is also changing - new technologies, specialties, the possibility of remote work and making money on those things that our parents in the 90s seemed to be the worst possible future for their child. All this constantly gives us clues, opens doors and windows to new, better and more interesting worlds. Frans Johansson, author of business bestsellers “The Turning Point” and “The Medici Effect,” says that regardless of the field of activity, the rules of the game in this area are not static, they can and will change. Hence the difficulties with planning ahead. How much resource does it take to draw up a plan and follow it by force?

Director of Microsoft Business Programs J.D. Meyer, in his book “Agile for Yourself: A System for Personal Achievement in Work and Life,” offers a flexible approach to planning and organizing life, which helps you correctly invest your energy, time and effort in solving the right problems. Constantly review goals, evaluate results and adjust ways to achieve them. In his “Dynamic Results” system, Meyer suggests learning to keep up with changes in yourself and the world around you and learning to use them for your own purposes.

Determine what results in what areas of your life you want to achieve

To do this, outline “Hot Spots” - the most pressing areas of your life that open up new opportunities, and “painful” points that require your time and effort. This allows you to see the whole picture of life at any time; it is important to give them simple and short names. GI divides them into three areas:

— Life (“Intellectual”, “Body”, “Emotional”, “Career”, “Financial”, “Relationships”, “Entertainment”);

— Work (Cases, Projects in progress, Accumulated issues);

— Personal (Affairs, Projects at work, Accumulated questions).

Hot spots are interconnected, it is necessary to maintain a balance between them: if you invest in “Career”, “Relationships” may sag. Thanks to the visibility, it’s easy to track and maintain the balance you need, based on your own priorities. This way you can find time for long-forgotten hobbies and reduce wasting energy on things that don’t matter to you personally.

Set your priorities

Follow the “Rule of Three” - highlight only three main goals, three results that you want to achieve. Three achievements for a day, three for a week, three for a month and three for a year. All these achievements must be interconnected: the results of the day must work on the results of the week, the results of the week - on the results of the month, and the results of the month - on the results of the year as a whole.

Make a plan focused on results

To do this, use the rule: Monday - plans, every day - results, Friday - results. Every week starts from scratch. On Monday, determine three results for the coming week, every day - three results that need to be achieved for this day, and on Friday, summarize: which three results were achieved, and which three still require improvement. Draw conclusions. These will come in handy for planning your new week next Monday. When allocating your time, prioritize what is truly important in the context of your goals.

The advantage of the “Dynamic Results” system is its flexibility - it is not a static, ready-made scheme, but a system that helps you gradually find your right course. You can even adjust “Hot Spots” - their meaning and their very presence. Meyer's system helps not only to take a fresh look at the principle of planning, but also to act towards the intended goals instead of endlessly compiling a list of tasks. How?

1. Follow the 80/20 principle! Don't spend 80% of your time thinking, leave only 20% for analytics, and act the rest of the time. The result will help you adjust your next steps.

2. Vary your approach to achieving results - try, experiment and abandon what does not work. Don't focus on results (they may not always be achieved or not immediately), but consider them as feedback on your approaches. You cannot control the result, but you can control your approach, your attitude and methods of achieving it.

3. Constant learning. You change, the world changes, and you need to constantly learn to win in new realities.

4 . Energy is more important than time. In one hour that you work at full capacity, you will accomplish more than in many hours when you are tired.

5 . Concentration over quantity. It is important not to redo as many things as possible, but to do really important things - important for the goals you have set. Plus, research shows that what happens is where you focus. When you highlight what is important and concentrate on this issue, the brain “brings out” all the relevant information for your consideration. This way you see more possibilities and solutions.

6. Development mindset versus predestination mindset. A growth mindset helps you overcome the helplessness of predestination, be more flexible and respond faster to changes, better absorb feedback and grow.

7 . Result comes before action. It's not how much you do that matters, but the result you get in the end. Defining the desired outcome helps us focus our efforts. The secret to success is taking the right steps to achieve the desired results.

8. Strengths are more important than weaknesses. Instead of wasting time fixing the flaws, use the strengths instead. Compensate for your weaknesses by collaborating with those who are strong in this.

9. Systematicity instead of acting according to the situation. It is one thing to achieve results from time to time, and another thing to put your experience into a system that you can rely on, which you can study and improve.

10 . Benefit is more important than clearing away rubble. Instead of just tackling your backlog of tasks, focus on what really brings you value.

11 . A progressive approach to benefit. Let the results form one continuous stream. Maintaining that flow is much more productive than waiting for big successes at the end.

12. Clearly distinguish “Actions” from “Help”. Always separate these categories in your plans - this will help you distinguish the real plans from the “background noise”.

13 . Set boundaries. The secret of efficiency is to spend the required amount (time, effort) on the really necessary steps.

14. Fixed time, flexible tasks. Set aside clear time for food, sleep and exercise and activities that support your body and spirit. Build your schedule around these vital points. At work, allocate your time by type of task: for example, an hour for administrative work, two for meetings, and three for project work. And make plans - what you need to do - based on these time periods, without in any way varying the periods themselves.

15. The rhythm of the results. Step by step, drop by drop, let your results create a certain rhythm - the rhythm of achievements for the day, week, month, year. Later, this rhythm will move to the level of habit, which will bring a feeling of real achievement.

16 . Vary your results. Try, experiment - and result No. 3 will most likely be better than No. 2, and definitely better than No. 1.

17 . Less is more. Take only what you can “digest”, don’t chase quantity.

18 . Best the enemy of the good. Don't let perfectionism get in the way of your achievements.

Another personal story from the founder of the OzeriankoBags brand, Dasha Ozeryanko. It turned out that Dasha has been using these principles in practice for a long time: “It all started in the last classes of the financial and legal lyceum. I studied to become a lawyer and entered the red building of the Shevchenko University. The whole family was proud, me too, a little bit. But in my second year I clearly understood that this was not my path and the path to nowhere. By that time, I had been interested in drawing for a long time, but my skills were not enough to enter the painting department of NAOMA (National Academy visual arts and architecture), so the choice fell on the Faculty of Art History. It’s even difficult to describe the surprise of my parents. They also raised a lawyer. After studying for five years and defending my master’s degree in art history, I still decided that working with my hands was more fun for me than commenting on other people’s work. And my little hobby of painting leather and creating bags turned into a full-fledged project that grows and develops in parallel with me. There is nothing cooler than creating a product from scratch. From creating a sketch to selecting materials and sewing finished product, which then lives its life with a person who shared your values ​​and created love with you.”

As a creative person, Dasha rather does not plan, but rather sets goals for herself for the year, without specific deadlines, so as not to put pressure on her psyche and kill her motivation. Leaves room for magic and unpredictable possibilities. If you know everything in advance, it becomes a little boring, doesn't it? “The most important thing in my goals is speedy implementation. It takes me no more than 1 month from the plan to the product. This is that ideal period of time when you catch fire with an idea, burn and implement it. Without burning out, you see the result. It's a thrill. For example, I don’t set age limits for achieving life goals at all. This is coding yourself to other people's expectations. And I live my life and have fun. I set big goals and go towards them at my own pace. Everything should be harmonious and without strain!”

During the preparation, materials were used from the website “Startups and Business” vc.ru.