Hoshin North Star Playbook

Get Your Priorities Straight in 7 Easy Steps

Illustrated in color

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English

North Stars. We have them in every facet of our lives—health, relationships, career, finances... When your North Star priorities are in order, life flows; when they’re out of order, so is life. In every case true alignment of your priorities with your life North Star can be the vital difference between mediocre or superior results, disaster or triumph. What to do? Engage the Hoshin North Star Process.™ The Hoshin (Japanese, shiny compass needle showing The Way) North Star is the strategic alignment process guiding world-leading companies such as Toyota, Honda, Proctor & Gamble and 3M. The process elegantly clarifies, sequences & supports your priorities for success, in 7 easy-to-follow steps. Along with Fortune 100 strategist Matthew Cross and the world’s 1st Hoshin North Star workbook, you’ll set your priorities straight to best achieve any goal and:

• Align your actions to your North Star
• Enhance decision-making intelligence
• Clear a runway for your full potential
• Engage in purposeful personal strategic planning
• Blueprint a powerful action plan for solid momentum
• Create the framework to operate smarter & more efficiently
• Sequence key priorities to support breakthrough success in ANY endeavor
• Reveal the right steps to take in the right order towards your goals & dreams

The 7-step Hoshin North Star Process in this book clarifies and lines up your priorities like cross-reinforcing dominos. You’ll get your bearings, set your course and launch onto your best path for any endeavor or challenge. Achieve greater with the wind at your back and the confidence and power that comes from laser-aligning your life priorities to your guiding North Star.

It’s not Rocket Science—it’s Rocket Fuel for stellar success.

Testimonials & Online Reviews

What you focus on up-front determines your success. It really comes down to what you focus on, and all the rest just falls into place. Matthew Cross’ Hoshin North Star Process masterfully reveals and aligns your up-front success drivers, setting the stage for greater achievement in any pursuit.

James McNeil, Tech Entrepreneur & Producer, Lo and Behold

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Matthew’s a Genius.

Marshall Thurber, Mentor to Tony Robbins, Jack Canfield & Mark Victor Hansen (Chicken Soup for the Soul) & Robert Kiyosaki (Rich Dad, Poor Dad)

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Matthew’s breakthrough Hoshin North Star work continues to have a profound impact on my personal and professional life.

Jeffrey Klepacki, 3-time Olympian & World Record Holder in Rowing; Senior Financial Management Executive

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Matthew’s brilliance at distilling complex information into usable, practical form has benefitted me immensely. I’ve used the Hoshin North Star Process in my business and personal life; the results have been so significant. I referenced it in my book so my readers could also benefit from this transformative process.

Jan Jones, President, Jan Jones Worldwide; author, The CEO’s Secret Weapon

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Truly amazing at setting your inner compass in the direction of personal success.

GM Khalsa, Master Yogi; Author, Total Fitness

I think the world of Matthew Cross, he helped change my life and manage all the goals and priorities I have with his Hoshin North Star workbook. I did it with him in person 10 or 15 years ago and if you really apply yourself it can do the same for you.

Jen Trudy

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With the Hoshin North Star Process we raised our predictive intelligence to better allocate resources, deepen the understanding of opportunities and how we can execute on our vision, strengthen our cross functional alignment and optimize the quality, speed and follow through of our strategic decisions. Matthew fosters dialogue in a way that is engaging, fun, thought-provoking and highly effective. His skillful facilitation of this transformational approach enables teams to focus on a common aim with greater clarity to unlock their collective genius.

Lisa Carraway, Senior Director Internal Communications, Qlik

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Original, provocative, stimulating. A most valuable integration of Dr. Deming’s theories into a process for achieving greater clarity and focus. You lead an inviting, enjoyable Hoshin presentation, with many excellent examples. Clare Crawford-Mason, acclaimed Producer/Reporter (NBC News; The Deming Video Library);

Author, Quality or Else; Founding Editor, People Magazine

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The odds of surviving the pace of the global investment banking environment have improved significantly, thanks to the Hoshin North Star Process and Matthew Cross’ trainings.

Mark Mula, Associate Director, Global Strategy Development; UBS

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Your Hoshin North Star Process presentation was the most exciting, useful and fun event at the entire conference.

Annual Great Game of Business Conference Participant

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I’ve been fortunate to work with Matthew Cross on four innovative books on the Golden Ratio & Fibonacci Sequence. In our latest—Nature’s Secret Nutrient—we used Matthew’s next-generation Hoshin North Star Process to sequence the essential drivers of peak health, performance & longevity. Matthew’s mastery of the process was instrumental in organizing paradigm-shifting medical concepts into easily accessible techniques for health and lifestyle enhancement.

Robert D. Friedman, M.D.

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An unparalleled contemplative process of great force. The Hoshin North Star clearly reveals the higher order in any situation, awakens inner wisdom and provides a real plan to achieve your dreams.

Steve Ilg, Author, The Outdoor Athlete; Olympic Coach

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Our lives contain the pattern of our true destiny. The Hoshin North Star Process elegantly reveals this pattern and provides the keys for living our destiny.

Dr. Klaus De la Haye, DDS

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Exceptionally easy to use guide.

Joe Siecinski

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The Hoshin North Star is Life Changing!! Thank you Matthew for being such an inspiration in our lives!

Tige Hofer

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Find your unique path to happiness. I was fortunate enough to attend a retreat hosted by my company where Matthew Cross took us through the Hoshin process. The results so far have been astounding. My amazement is in its simplicity. This is an actual workbook that will take you through the process of achieving whatever life goal you want to achieve in a step by step methodical way. Your path may seem obvious, until you break down your goal to its very foundation. Only then can you find the essential order of steps that must be taken before you reach your desired destination. It truly is a map to get you wherever it is you want to be.

Forrest

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Brings results. A clear, concise and effect tool for prioritizing your attention in work and personal life. We have had substantial business and personal goals achieved because of applying the knowledge in "The Hoshin North Star Process." Thank you Matthew Cross!

B. Long

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Your Guide to Success. Matthew Cross has done a brilliant job. This book is well worth the time and the ideas are clearly presented and easy to adapt. Do yourself a favor and read this fascinating book.

Dr. Phil Nuernberger

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The Hoshin North Star Process surfaces and powerfully articulates your goals, vision and master plan. Provides greater clarity and alignment, a better way of focusing one’s energies, and a strength of purpose for higher achievement.

Marian Linden, Head, Horace Mann Middle School

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At once excellent quality, great fun, and very, very, useful. Matthew presents the Hoshin North Star Process seminar with a rare level of focused energy, enthusiasm and clarity. Highly recommended for anyone seeking a quantum leap in life.

Elisabeth Gasch, Psychotherapist

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I learned how to use what I know to get where I want to go. Fun, fascinating and indescribably useful.

Andrew Schumacher, Honor Student, Horace Mann School [Andrew went on to become a medical doctor]

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Clearly shows how correctly aligned small steps and actions can lead to big results.

J. Johnson, International Institute for Learning

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A most powerful process towards helping you solve the mystery of who you are, where you’re going and how to get there.

Dr. Norman Katz

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Excellent power with great punch. Provides an actual roadmap for success; leaves no doubt where your personal focus needs to be to achieve your dreams.

John Bolduc, President, BoldMusic Group

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A superior tool for processing out any confusion or ‘stuck-ness’ surrounding important life issues and decisions. A great way to discover your true priorities and appropriate best actions.

L. Solari, Health Practitioner

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Your introduction of the Hoshin North Star Process was a major event in our journey of Total Quality in Education. It afforded us many crucial insights about ourselves and our individual perceptions about our organization—the invisible, yet very real key learnings that are essential in making lasting change and setting in place systems for continuous improvement. I strongly recommend your expert training and guidance to all organizations, educational and otherwise.

Donna Estomago, Hawaii Dept. of Education