What you could learn from ‘Smartcuts’ by Shane Snow (2016, 198 pages)

Posted by Max on March 17, 2017 in Book reviews, effectiveness | Leave a comment

What makes some people wildly more successful than others?

In his book ‘Smartcuts’, Shane argues that there 9 things that super successful people do differently:

1. Hack the ladder – do only what will get you to the next level, don’t just follow the standard track or other people
2. Training with Masters – get better quality advice and feedback from a master
3. Rapid feedback – learn faster by iterating faster
4. Platforms – be the ‘go to person’ for something other people value
5. Waves – learn which wave (opportunity), you may need to miss a few to wait for the right one
6. Superconnectors – connect with people that know a lot of powerful and rich people
7. Momentum – make sure you can capitalise on successes by having a plan to follow up
8. Simplicity – the more people that understand it, the more people will use it
9. 10x thinking – incremental improvements will not create the next disruption

Smartcuts is well written and researched book.  Read this book, if you want a consolidated playbook for super achievement.

Link to ‘Smartcuts’ on Amazon UK

There are some also other great points in the book:

• Convince people to help you
• Seeing other people fail is more likely to make you succeed
• If you fail
• Honest reflection of you contribution will mean that you learn faster (don’t take feedback personally)
• Expertise is pattern recognition, but you can make better decision that someone with expertise through thoughtful land careful analysis
• 47% of first movers fail, only 8% of follow-on moves fail