Never Enough Time
It’s a cliche of executive life: you don’t have time to do everything. Whether you use little slips of paper, a planner, scheduling software or a Palm Pilot, all attempts at time management fail. Rather than throwing in the towel, I suggest that you need a new frame of reference. Change your focus from time management to priority management.
Create a list of priorities
Your strategic plan should highlight your business priorities. If you don’t have one, take a look at …
Unreasonable Requests
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” — George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists
It is probably the number two task of leadership — asking. You ask people to do things, and when they do — well, stuff happens.
But what really extends your ability to make big things happen is asking for things that are “unreasonable.”
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How To Make Mistakes
Promoting risk taking and eliminating fear of failure.
It would be a mistake to try to avoid all mistakes. Indeed, it would be a colossal blunder to attempt doing things right the first time, every time. In todays light speed economy, (“new” economy and “old” economy) if you don’t fall on your face both regularly and painfully, you are likely to end up dead instead. The only people not making mistakes are ones playing their game without risk and without novelty – and I mig…