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About John Zeratsky
John Zeratsky is the bestselling author of Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days and Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day.
John’s writing has been published by The Wall Street Journal, TIME, Harvard Business Review, Wired, Fast Company, and many other publications. He has appeared on stage nearly 200 times, including at Netflix, IDEO, McKinsey, the Code Conference, and The London School of Economics.
For nearly 15 years, John was a designer for technology companies. At Google Ventures (GV), he helped develop the design sprint process and worked with close to 200 startups, including Uber, Slack, 23andMe, Flatiron Health, Blue Bottle Coffee, and Nest. He was also GV’s in-house copywriter, editor, and content strategist; he created and edited the GV Library, which has reached millions of readers since 2012. Previously, John was a designer at YouTube and Google, and an early employee at FeedBurner, which Google acquired in 2007.
John studied journalism at the University of Wisconsin and graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the UW School of Human Ecology, where he’s now an advisor to the Dean and faculty.
Originally from small-town Wisconsin, John and his wife Michelle have lived in Chicago and San Francisco. They spent 18 months traveling in Central America aboard their sailboat Pineapple before moving to Milwaukee in 2019.
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“If you want to achieve more (without going nuts), read this book.”—Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit
Nobody ever looked at an empty calendar and said, "The best way to spend this time is by cramming it full of meetings!" or got to work in the morning and thought, Today I'll spend hours on Facebook! Yet that's exactly what we do. Why?
In a world where information refreshes endlessly and the workday feels like a race to react to other people's priorities faster, frazzled and distracted has become our default position. But what if the exhaustion of constant busyness wasn't mandatory? What if you could step off the hamster wheel and start taking control of your time and attention? That's what this book is about.
As creators of Google Ventures' renowned "design sprint," Jake and John have helped hundreds of teams solve important problems by changing how they work. Building on the success of these sprints and their experience designing ubiquitous tech products from Gmail to YouTube, they spent years experimenting with their own habits and routines, looking for ways to help people optimize their energy, focus, and time. Now they've packaged the most effective tactics into a four-step daily framework that anyone can use to systematically design their days. Make Time is not a one-size-fits-all formula. Instead, it offers a customizable menu of bite-size tips and strategies that can be tailored to individual habits and lifestyles.
Make Time isn't about productivity, or checking off more to-dos. Nor does it propose unrealistic solutions like throwing out your smartphone or swearing off social media. Making time isn't about radically overhauling your lifestyle; it's about making small shifts in your environment to liberate yourself from constant busyness and distraction.
A must-read for anyone who has ever thought, If only there were more hours in the day..., Make Time will help you stop passively reacting to the demands of the modern world and start intentionally making time for the things that matter.
Entrepreneurs and leaders face big questions every day: What’s the most important place to focus your effort, and how do you start? What will your idea look like in real life? How many meetings and discussions does it take before you can be sure you have the right solution?
Now there’s a surefire way to answer these important questions: the Design Sprint, created at Google by Jake Knapp. This method is like fast-forwarding into the future, so you can see how customers react before you invest all the time and expense of creating your new product, service, or campaign.
In a Design Sprint, you take a small team, clear your schedules for a week, and rapidly progress from problem, to prototype, to tested solution using the step-by-step five-day process in this book.
A practical guide to answering critical business questions, Sprint is a book for teams of any size, from small startups to Fortune 100s, from teachers to nonprofits. It can replace the old office defaults with a smarter, more respectful, and more effective way of solving problems that brings out the best contributions of everyone on the team—and helps you spend your time on work that really matters.
“Você só perde tempo se gastá-lo de forma inconsciente.”
Nunca houve quem olhasse para uma agenda vazia e dissesse “Hum, a melhor forma de gastar esse tempo é abarrotá-lo de reuniões!” ou fosse para o trabalho e pensasse: “Hoje vou passar horas e horas no Facebook!” No entanto, é exatamente isso que nós fazemos. Por quê?
Depois do sucesso do método Sprint, do Google Ventures, e da experiência de design em produtos tecnológicos que estão por toda parte — do Gmail ao YouTube —, Jake Knapp e John Zeratsky passaram anos buscando maneiras de ajudar as pessoas a otimizar energia, concentração e tempo. Então reuniram as táticas mais eficientes em uma estrutura diária de quatro passos, para que qualquer pessoa seja capaz de esquematizar o próprio dia de maneira mais sistemática.
Leitura obrigatória para qualquer um que já tenha pensado “E se meu dia tivesse pelo menos algumas horas a mais?”, Faça tempo não é uma fórmula-padrão sobre produtividade. Tampouco propões soluções irreais, como jogar fora seu celular ou sair de todas as redes sociais ao mesmo tempo. Em vez disso, é um guia que proporciona pequenas mudanças na sua vida para que você se liberte da ocupação e da distração constantes e priorize o que é realmente importante na sua vida.
Dafür gibt es eine geniale Lösung: Sprint. Die ist ein einzigartiger, innovativer und narrensicherer Prozess, mit dem sich die härtesten Probleme in nur fünf Tagen lösen lassen – von Montag bis Freitag. Der Entwickler Jake Knapp entwarf diesen Prozess bei und für Google, wo er seither in allen Bereichen genutzt wird. Zusammen mit John Zeratsky und Braden Kowitz hat er darüber hinaus bereits mehr als 100 Sprints in Firmen aus unterschiedlichen Bereichen durchgeführt.
Der Sprint-Prozess bietet praktische Hilfe für Unternehmen aller Größen, vom kleinen Start-up bis hin zum Fortune-100-Unternehmen. Die Methode ist auch für alle anderen bewährt, die vor einem großen Problem stehen, schnell eine Idee testen oder einfach eine Möglichkeit schnell ergreifen wollen.
Creado por Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky y Braden Kowitz, tres socios de Google Ventures, SPRINT es un método único e infalible de 5 días para solventar problemas empresariales complicados y conseguir que la viabilidad de un proyecto se implante rápidamente.
Probado con éxito en más de 100 ocasiones.
Tanto los emprendedores como los directivos tienen que enfrentarse todos los días a dilemas importantes: ¿Dónde hay que poner las prioridades y por dónde hay que empezar?, ¿cuántas reuniones son necesarias para dar con la solución más adecuada?
Ahora ya disponemos de un método seguro para responder a estas cuestiones cruciales: el Sprint. El diseñador Jake Knapp creó este proceso de cinco días en Google, donde los sprints se empleaban para todo tipo de proyectos, desde el Google Search hasta Google X. En Google Ventures empezó a trabajar con Braden Kowitz y John Zeratsky y los tres han conducido más de cien sprints con empresas del sector de la telefonía móvil, del comercio electrónico, la sanidad, las finanzas y otros.
Como guía práctica para resolver importantes problemas empresariales, Sprint puede resultar muy útil para todo tipo de equipos de cualquier dimensión, desde pequeñas startups hasta grandes empresas multinacionales, desde equipos de profesores a empresas sin ánimo de lucro. Se trata de un libro para cualquiera con una oportunidad, idea o problema que necesite una respuesta rápida.
La opinión de los expertos:
«Lea este libro y siga sus consejos si quiere desarrollar productos mejores y más deprisa.»
Ev Williams, fundador de Medium y Twitter
«Sprint ofrece una fórmula transformadora para testar ideas, muy útil tanto si se aplica a una startup como a cualquier gran organización. En tan solo cinco días, podremos pasar de una idea inicial al prototipo y la decisión final ahorrándonos un montón de horas y dinero. Una lectura obligatoria para emprendedores de cualquier tipo.»
Eric Ries, autor de El método Lean Startup
«Todos los directivos que conozco están preocupados por lo mismo: ¿Nos estamos moviendo lo suficientemente rápido? Sprint nos ofrece un método paso a paso para resolver problemas de envergadura y avanzar en lo que realmente importa con rapidez. Un sprint es la cura para los males de la empresas en un mundo que va cada día más rápido.»
Beth Comstock, vice-presidenta de General Electric
Como inovar? Por onde começar? Como formar uma boa equipe? Que forma terá uma ideia quando for colocada em prática? São muitas as perguntas que martelam na cabeça de quem precisa tirar ideias do papel, mas já existe um caminho infalível para responder a todas elas rapidamente: o sprint.
Método criado pelo designer Jake Knapp no período em que ele trabalhava no Google, era usado para tudo na empresa, do aperfeiçoamento do mecanismo de buscas ao Google Hangouts, com o foco em desenvolver e testar ideias em apenas cinco dias. Knapp se juntou mais tarde a Braden Kowitz e John Zeratsky no Google Ventures, braço da companhia dedicado ao investimento em novos negócios, e juntos eles conduziram e completaram mais de cem sprints em empresas de telefonia, e-commerce, saúde, finanças e muito mais.
Sprint serve para equipes de todos os tamanhos, de pequenas startups até os maiores conglomerados, e pode ser aplicado por qualquer um que tenha uma grande oportunidade, problema ou ideia e precise começar a trabalhar já.
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SPRINT衝刺計畫——5天5步驟的高效率工作流程,讓你迅速解決難題、測試新構想、完成更多任務,還能加快工作速度!
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【內容說明】
「SPRINT衝刺計畫」,是由Google創投(Google Ventures,簡稱GV)的三位設計合夥人研發的一個獨特的5天5步驟流程,說明如何藉由設計、建立原型和與邀請顧客實地檢驗構想,快速解決各種商業上的難題。
設計師傑克·納普(Jake Knapp)在Google工作時,創造了一種獨特的問題解決方法,他稱之為「衝刺計畫」(sprint)——為期五天、可以幫助企業回答關鍵問題的一種流程。Google把這個「衝刺計畫」,應用在Google Search、Gmail、Chrome、Google X的各種項目上。
納普加入GV後,與設計師暨合夥人布雷登·柯維茲(Braden Kowitz)和約翰·澤拉斯基(John Zeratsky)結為夥伴;他們兩人曾參與YouTube和Gmail等產品的工作。於是,三人針對GV投資的公司做過超過一百次的衝刺計畫,包括藍瓶咖啡(Blue Bottle Coffee)、Nest、Flatiron Health和 Medium等。
他們親眼看到,衝刺計畫可以幫助所有類型的公司克服難題,從醫療、保健