Long Fuse, Big Bang: Achieving Long-Term Success Through Daily Victories

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All too often the tyranny of the urgent stifles the pursuit of the important. Our day-to-day struggles, pressing though they may be, can defeat our long-term goals and obscure opportunities. Additionally, it seems that we're governed by an ancient script, and that the vast majority of our feelings, behaviors, and perceptions are not our conscious choosing, but are the collective actions of many fast but unconscious processes. But it is possible to work around this hardwired, short-time horizon orientation to ...

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Long Fuse, Big Bang: Achieving Long-Term Success Through Daily Victories

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Overview

All too often the tyranny of the urgent stifles the pursuit of the important. Our day-to-day struggles, pressing though they may be, can defeat our long-term goals and obscure opportunities. Additionally, it seems that we're governed by an ancient script, and that the vast majority of our feelings, behaviors, and perceptions are not our conscious choosing, but are the collective actions of many fast but unconscious processes. But it is possible to work around this hardwired, short-time horizon orientation to discover ways to light long fuses, to nurture long-term opportunities, and to nudge projects along that may lead to some new product, process or, breakthrough.

Long Fuse, Big Bang shows readers how to use daily victories to create big-bang opportunities:

Grab all you can, as fast as you can.

Give weight to experiences with emotional resonance.

Ignore all but the small percentage of incoming information that matters.

Give and take knowledge across generations.

Change behavior if you're in a discomfort zone.

Repeat behaviors that are rewarded, avoid behaviors that are punished.

This indispensable book reveals how to focus on tomorrow without sacrificing today.

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Haseltine's studies of the brain have aided him in senior positions with the NSA, Disney Imagineering, and Hughes Aircraft and make this a scholarly, packed analysis. Relying on his own experiences and case studies of pioneering companies like IBM, Disney, and Wal-Mart, Haseltine makes a convincing case that our short-term, put-out-the-fire mentality makes us miss opportunities that come from long-term thinking. In compelling, well-researched examples from a number of fields, Haseltine demonstrates how the successes of today were once the dream projects of visionary leaders who broke their ideas down and organized them into daily increments that allowed them to be approached methodically. Walt Disney, Haseltine points out, understood that "speaking to the heart works much better than speaking to the mind," because our conscious mind is "a Post-it note" compared to the unconscious, which he likens to the "Library of Congress." It's not what we do on a daily basis, he argues, but how we do it.
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"Narrator Kirby Heyborne reads with a sophisticated maturity that sneaks up on listeners. . . . It's a perfect vehicle for the gravitas of the writing." —-AudioFile
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781401323639
  • Publisher: Hyperion
  • Publication date: 7/20/2010
  • Pages: 272
  • Sales rank: 1,150,000
  • Product dimensions: 9.54 (w) x 6.88 (h) x 0.86 (d)

Meet the Author


Eric Haseltine holds a Ph.D. in physiological psychology. Currently the president and managing partner of Haseltine Partners LLC, he has held senior positions at the National Security Agency, Disney Imagineering, and Hughes Aircraft. He lives in Silver Spring, Maryland. Kirby Heyborne is an accomplished actor, musician, and comedian. He has received critical acclaim for his starring roles in the award-winning World War II drama Saints and Soldiers, the lighthearted family comedy The R.M., the award-winning boy-band mockumentary The Sons of Provo, and the award-winning quixotic comedy Pirates of the Great Salt Lake. He has had starring roles in thirteen features and many short films. Kirby has also appeared on the WB's Everwood and many national commercials. Recently, Kirby was seen as a recurring character on the hit FOX sitcom Free Ride. Kirby has received a number of AudioFile Earphones Awards for excellence in audiobook narration. He has narrated such titles as Nick and Nora's Infinite Playlist by Rachel Cohn and David Levithan, Black Swan Green by David Mitchell, Breathers by S. G. Browne, and The Genius by Jesse Kellerman. Kirby is a cofounder and director of the celebrated Los Angeles–based improv comedy group The Society. Also a successful musician, Kirby has released four solo albums and has had his music featured in many films. Kirby has delighted audiences across the country with his ability to blend heart-warming stories, beautiful music, and comedic wit.
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Table of Contents

Introduction Why You Shouldn't Buy This Book xiii

1 The Ancient Script 1

2 The Brain's Playbook 22

3 Pursuing the Distant Win 41

4 Blinkers and Blind Spots 56

5 Turning Others' Failures into Your Successes 77

6 Secret Weapons 84

7 Bringing Big Bangs Back From the Future 114

8 The Language of the Heart 137

9 Light Long Fuses and Leave 158

10 In Defense of Tribalism 180

11 Lighting Fuses as a Way of Life 204

12 Keeping Long Fuses Lit 223

Endnotes 243

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