One
of the most important parts of business management is managing yourself. It’s
not about managing the business but, it’s about organizing your life so you can
accomplish the things that are important.
There
are five key critical lessons that I have been posting here one lesson for each day. Click here, if you missed Part I yesterday.
#2.
“Effective executives focus on outward contribution. They gear their efforts to
results rather than to work. They start out with the question, “What results
are expected of me?” rather than with the work to be done, let alone with its
techniques and tools.”
Don’t
focus on the work in front of you, focus on results. If you are just doing what
comes in, you are on the treadmill, not making a difference.
'If
the executive lets the flow of events determine what he does, what he works on,
and what he takes seriously, he will fritter himself away “operating.” He may
be an excellent man. But he is certain to waste his knowledge and ability and
to throw away what little effectiveness he might have achieved. What the
executive needs are criteria which enable him to work on the truly important,
that is, on contributions and results, even though the criteria are not found
in the flow of events.' ~ Peter Drucker
Come back tomorrow for lesson #3. _/|\_
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