A short YouTube talk (Scott Empringham, uploaded March 8, 2025) about finding the single daily action that most advances a business using the domino metaphor from the book The One Thing. The speaker explains they built a custom GPT by loading The One Thing, Scaling Up (Vern Harnish), and EOS Traction (Gino Wickman) and created prompts that, over about 22 questions, guide a user to their "one thing."
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There's a great book called the One thing, the one thing you should be doing every single day to move your business forward. Well, what is that one thing in the book, the One Thing? They use the metaphor of dominoes. If you can imagine this huge domino at the end, that's your big, hairy, audacious goal. And then there's a series of progressively smaller dominoes, starting with one like the size of a potato chip. It's really crazy. So your biggest challenge in your business is to figure out what is that one domino. We actually created a GPT that we took the entire book, the One Thing. Then we took Vern Harnish's Scaling up, which is the preeminent book on scaling a business. Then we took a third book, EOS Traction by Gino Wickman. We loaded all those books and we created prompts to take you step by step. What is your big, hairy, audacious goal? And it walks you through all the principles of Scale up. In about 22 questions, you arrive at your one thing that you need to do daily.