What’s the one thing you try to do every day in the pursuit of success?

As complexity and demand rise in the workplace,it isn’t surprising that people become obsessed with shortcuts. Juggling competing projects and priorities in today’s fast-paced business world can make a business professionalfeel compelled to go from A to B in the speediest and most convenient way.

Great leaders, entrepreneurs and visionaries accomplish big things by starting first with one thing, whether it's following up on an insightful question, pursuing a single point of focus or taking on a healthy habit.

I reached out to some of today’s brightest management thinkers, workplace experts and thought leaders, asking, “What’s the one thing you try to do every day in the pursuit of success?”

Here are the insights the experts shared:

Align time and purpose.

"Great leaders perpetually reprioritize where and how they spend their time as they let their core vision guide them. Today, the pace of change shifts situations at such a rapid pace, leaders must challenge themselves every day to focus on the ‘right things.’ I think of it as an elegant tightrope walk: Every critical step forward sustains your focus, keeps you upright and moves you closer to your goal."

--Kathy Kavanagh, pwC leadership development leader

深入研究细节。

"One thing that distinguishes great leaders is their ability to use rigorous analysis to make decisions and then take action. To meet the challenge at hand, I select a data-driven decision framework that helps me systematically work through issues to reach a conclusion. The objectivity embedded in the framework gives me perspective and prevents decision biases from blocking the best choice."

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Value every perspective.

"Every person has unique value. Find a way to establish a relationship with him or herand empower that person to express that unique value. When the time is right, that person will help you achieve your goals. Extraordinary things can happen when you find a way to bring the right people into your critical conversations every day."

-- Carolyn J. Lukensmeyer, author ofBringing Citizen Voices to the Table

Stay present and engaged.

"Great leaders grow their self-awareness every day. Self-awareness isn’t a skill -- it’s a commitment to regularly gain insight about who you are and how others see you. At the beginning of the day, they might ask, What am I trying to improve right now and how will I practice it? At the end of the day, they review, How did I do and what did I learn?"

-- Tasha Eurich, author ofBankable Leadership

Turn setbacks into learning.

"I make a conscious choice every day to accept setbacks as part of the journey. Whether it's a failure, a setback or a misstep, I view it as an opportunity to learn and to be wiser in thefuture. Where did we get the notion that pursuing our dreams should happen flawlessly and orderly? progress and success look messy behind the scenes."

-- Fauzia Burke,digital marketer and president ofFSB Associates

Align personal hopes and business goals.

"Focus on what you want out of life, your goals and aspirations. Let your business support your personal growth. Never let it be all-encompassing. Give generously in private, pursue win-win relationships, focus on efficiency in your work and spend time in thought and learning. Taking these actions will ensure your personal and public successes, lead to wealth and make you an asset to the world."

--Mark Beckner, author ofThe Coder’s path to Wealth and Independence

Focus on authentic purpose.

"I balance my natural drive for speed and impact with a counterbalancing drive for significance, innovation and sustained customer intimacy. This involves slowing down and moving from transactive management, which focuses on speed, content, accuracy and productivity, to transformativeleadership, which focuses on significance, context, authenticity and purpose. This critical shift requires constant diligence, discipline and practice."

-- Kevin Cashman, founder of the Chief Executive Instituteand author

认识到选择的力量。

“我们每天都在选择如何与周围的世界接触。别浪费那个机会。决定你作为领导者想要创造什么样的环境，认识到你每时每刻的影响，然后有意识地选择你的行为。”

--明迪霍尔，《用心阅读》的作者

平衡战略和关系。

“精神资本x关系资本=金融资本。这意味着你离下一个盈利水平只有一个想法或一个人。所以，任何时候你面对挑战时，都要决定是思想问题还是人的问题。是时候进行更多的头脑风暴了，还是可以通过引入合适的人来解决挑战？”

--加勒特B。Gunderson，公司首席执行官WealthFactory.com 《杀牛记》的作者

预测接下来会发生什么。

“想要有所作为的企业领导者需要三思而后行，超越日常、每月甚至每年的工作。他们需要根据公众对未来十年的渴求以及政治和社会发展刚刚开始泡沫化的情况来规划自己的工作。这可以从仔细阅读几乎每天发布的许多民调和研究报告中学到。”

--罗伯特L。迪伦施耐德，迪伦施耐德集团创始人兼董事长

形成协作网络。

“自1997年以来，女性拥有企业的数量增加了68%。妇女通过建立不断扩大的提供专门知识和支持的资源网络来做到这一点。他们这样做是因为连接感觉很好，而且很有效！我从来没有想过，‘我能从你那里得到什么？’专注于我们能共同完成的事情，有助于我改变世界。”

--南希·D。奥赖利，《女主角》的作者

当然，它不会做一件对企业家有影响的事情。当努力的积累创造了前进的动力时，就会产生指数级的影响。

一个成功的倡议或启动最终只是日常决策和行动的反映，在每个人之间展开milestone.It 不能在一夜之间从概念变成完全执行的计划，但它会随着你完成每个目标而依次推进。做第一件事是到达终点线的先决条件。

当创业者专注于较小的步骤时，他或她就会获得信心和吸引力。什么是压倒性的成为咬大小和可行的。过去的阴霾现在有了一个明确的发展方向。

我每天都在想些什么呢？我问一个问题，今天做什么最重要，工作中的工作是什么？这有助于我在每项任务中找到增值的元素或隐藏的挑战，这样我就能超越预期，在变化曲线上领先一步。

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