Dr. Stephen G. Payne Alan S.W. Dowie
- It's a simple idea that can substantially improve your results. Express your plan on a single page. 1-Page it! The clarity and focus you get will boost your confidence, plus you will be holding a great tool for communicating with your team.
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1-Paging is simply the practice of cutting through life’s confusion by actively managing your world on a single page.
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This book introduces the 1-Page Game Plan, the great 1-paging tool that will help you, your team, or even your global organization, get and stay focused on executing the things that deliver success.
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Dr. Stephen G. Payne is an ex-CEO intent on helping leaders from all walks of life achieve their greatest potential for growth. For 14 years, he has brought his readily doable approach to performance acceleration to CEOs and senior executives, to groups of aspiring leaders, and to MBA students. A crisp focus on the situation through 1-Paging is, in Stephen’s view, a critical tool for any leader’s journey.
Alan S. W. Dowie is a senior manager with a leading global healthcare company. For more than a decade, Alan has been an enthusiastic exponent of 1-Paging, applying this focused way of thinking and acting to local and international business situations. He has found 1-Paging to be a powerful way to achieve goals by galvanizing diverse groups, regardless of functional and geographic barriers.
Stephen and Alan combine to be the voice of the busy senior manager who narrates this book.
Losing focus is a modern-day epidemic. We get so crammed with information and tasks that our effectiveness drops rapidly. As a simple self-evaluation, think about your job or current situation and ask yourself these questions:
Am I certain that all my busy activities today are really necessary to achieving my goals? What about yesterday?
Am I too often triggered into action by disruptions that lead me nowhere?
Are my days so over-piled with stuff that the pleasure of real achievement seems to elude me?
Be honest, do these questions raise any doubts about how well you stay focused in managing your world?
From a professional point of view (Note: Applying this from a personal growth point of view is in Chapter 6), in order to stay on track, we simply need to answer this sequence of 5-Questions:
1. Where is our organization headed, and what are the top-level priorities?
2. What are my (or my team’s) targets or goals, and can I see the linkage to the bigger organizational priorities?
3. Am I getting closer to my targets, and can I see my performance gap clearly whenever I need to look?
4. Does my direction need to change because internal and external forces have impacted me recently?
5. Right now, what must I organize to get done in order to meet my (or my team’s) goals?
