Thought For The Day

March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment

Three steps to achieving what you want or keep you resolutions:

1. Goal Setting
You maintain your direction by setting a goal. This is how you can see where you are heading. Goals can be long term or short term, and it can be revised but they are there to help you chart your course.

2. Motivation
Without motivation nothing can be accomplished. Keeping your goals firmly in mind, having the motivation to get there is how you can achieve your goals.

3. Time Management
Time will not stop, but you can allocate your time to operate effectively. Without time management, even the greatest plans will not be executed.


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Time Is A Scarce Resource

October 2, 2008 | 2 Comments


When someone says to you, “I’m sorry, but I just don’t have the time.” you know they are lying. What they are actually saying is ” I don’t want to spend time with you, in the manner you’re suggesting.”

As managers, we control how we invest our time. We don’t want to sit in on unproductive meetings, or on low-priority issues. If the job cannot be done in the course of a normal working day, there is either something work with the job or that person just isn’t performing.

I’ve seen time-management programs that actually take up even more of our time, we attend meetings to schedule our work, meetings to update head office management the progress of our work. Then the people who can help our business are told that we are not available because we are all at a meeting.

I like to invest my time in the following ways:

  1. Talking to our customers to discover our problems.
  2. Develop the people I work with.
  3. Learn and assimilate information and new techniques.
  4. Create new standards to improve our performances.
  5. Show ways to motivate the organization.

Invest your time in things and people that matters. Keep pushing the information down to the front-lines. Keep the channels of communication open. When you do that, your people will know the direction you are headed, and have the knowledge to handle problems down at their level. And you will be the first to hear about it.

Recommended reading: First Class Manager by Andrew Rondeau.

Also recommended: Our Emperors Have No Clothes by Alan Weiss.

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