The Michelangelo Principle: How Busy Leaders Accomplish More by Doing Less - Softcover

Rulkens, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1637428464 ISBN 13: 9781637428467

Verlag: Business Expert Press, 2025

Inhaltsangabe

Achieve More by Doing Less

Success in leadership often becomes its own trap. The better you perform, the more complexity, noise, and demands pile onto your plate. But what if the key to extraordinary results isn’t doing more, but removing what doesn’t matter?

The Michelangelo Principle: How Busy Leaders Accomplish More by Doing Less challenges you to rethink leadership. Like Michelangelo carving David, true mastery lies not in adding, but in chiseling away the unnecessary to reveal your full potential.

This book is designed for Corporate Olympians, high-performing leaders caught in the paradox of success. With fresh perspectives, innovative concepts, and actionable tools, you’ll learn to sidestep inefficiencies, eliminate distractions, and amplify your leadership impact.

• Break Free from Leadership Traps – Avoid time-wasters, zombie projects, and the illusion of competence.
• Build Resilience – Shift from rigidity to adaptability with systems that thrive in uncertainty.
• Activate Your Team – Transform committees into high-performance teams that own results.
• Leave a Legacy – Stop leaving trails of activity and start building systems that outlast you.

From The Valley of Death to The Two Buckets Problem, The Michelangelo Principle introduces powerful frameworks and practical tools inspired by disciplines as diverse as physics, history, and engineering. It challenges conventional wisdom and offers practical steps to streamline your leadership, sharpen decision-making, and focus on what matters most.

This is not just another book on productivity. It’s a roadmap for creating a simpler, stronger, and more impactful path to leadership success.

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Paul Rulkens is a global authority on high-performance leadership, strategy, and exponential growth. With a sharp focus on simplifying complexity and amplifying results, Paul has helped senior executives and organizations around the world achieve extraordinary outcomes by doing less. His signature frameworks, including The Michelangelo Principle, challenge conventional thinking and empower leaders to remove the unnecessary and focus on what truly matters.

Paul's work has attracted a prestigious list of global clients, including McKinsey & Company, Siemens, UBER, Johnson & Johnson, ASML, and Nestlé. Across industries, Paul has helped these organizations streamline decision-making, activate high-performance teams, and create systems that thrive under pressure. His clients consistently report measurable results, including improved profitability, operational efficiency, and leadership transformation.

A thought leader and engaging speaker, Paul's TED talk, Why the Majority is Always Wrong, has been viewed over six million times. Known for his ability to distill complex ideas into actionable insights, Paul delivers over 30 keynotes annually to leaders and organizations across the globe.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Business Expert Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2025
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1637428464
• ISBN 13: 9781637428467
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 198
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Mare Nostrum Group B.V.; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Doelen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Niederlande