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 on
Thursday; here
for Part II on
Friday and here
for Part
III yesterday.
#4. “Effective
executives concentrate on the few major areas where superior performance will
produce outstanding results. They force themselves to set priorities and stay
with their priority decisions. They know that they have no choice but to do
first things first—and second things not at all. The alternative is to get
nothing done.”
Getting
things done is not enough. You must get the right things done. What is most
important? Focus on that.
To
be effective is the job of the executive. “To effect” and “to execute” are,
after all, near-synonyms. Whether he works in a business or in a hospital, in a
government agency or in a labor union, in a university or in the army, the
executive is, first of all, expected to get the right things done. And this is
simply that he is expected to be effective… All in all, the effective executive
tries to be himself; he does not pretend to be someone else. He looks at his
own performance and at his own results and tries to discern a pattern. “What
are the things,” he asks, “that I seem to be able to do with relative ease,
while they come rather hard to other people?”
Come
back tomorrow for lesson #5. _/|\_
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