ProductivityGoal Setting

The One Thing

Gary Keller and Jay Papasan

Keller and Papasan's focusing question — 'What is the ONE thing I can do such that by doing it, everything else will be easier or unnecessary?' — becomes the Priority Cut's forcing function when applied at the quarterly level. The Quarterly Operating System draws on its compounding case for focus, and its Chapter 6 Eisenhower Matrix discussion takes this framing directly.