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How interruptions drain productivity

17 May 2009

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Time is a leaders most valuable resource. The way a leader uses their time, demonstrates to the people around them what’s really important. The management of interruptions is critical to ensure you make effective use of this valuable resource. The article “Fighting a War Against Distraction” emphasise the devastating impact that interruptions have [...]

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How to Create Practical Checklists

13 April 2009

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The humble checklist has been used for may years as a memory aid. Checklists help to ensure tasks are completed to the right quality and standards. The best example of a checklist is the daily “to do” list, a reminder of what needs to be accomplished this day. In some cases [...]

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Keeping your leadership focus

13 April 2009

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“The hardest thing about the job is staying focused” – President Obama talking to Steve Kroft on 60 Minutes

“How the best bosses find focus” provides three great insights into how leaders keep their leadership focus:

Know what you’re not good at. “Over lunch last week, a senior executive at a top Fortune 500 [...]

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Talking time to stop and think

24 August 2008

One of the topics that I have written about on numerous occasions is the importance of setting aside time to reflect and think. How are you doing with this leadership practice? Do you have a place to think and shape your thoughts? Consider the following event in the life of Edward Bear from Winnie the [...]

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How to effectively delegate tasks…

20 July 2008

Effective leaders delegate tasks to others, this allows them to work of more important concerns and to help develop other people around them. However, the reality is that you can only delegate work, not responsibility, if it’s your accountability it remains your accountability no matter who does the work. This means that when you delegate [...]

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The importance of questioning your work

16 June 2008

Taking time out to think and reflect on what your busy with and what’s your purpose, what are you striving to achieve? Then ask yourself, is what I’m doing directly contributing to my purpose? To remain on track 37signals suggests that to remain effective that we question our work, by asking the following:
 

 
These are questions [...]

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How to read a business book

3 June 2008

Having written one of my first posts on “How to Read and Digest a Book!” the post by Seth Godin on How to read a business book, really caught my attention. In the post Seth makes the following observation on how people go about reading a business book…
“…..They cruise through the case studies or the [...]

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Leader: Who do you intend to be?

5 May 2008

“Management has a lot to do with answers. Leadership is a function of questions. And the first question for a leader always is: ‘Who do we intend to be?’ Not ‘What are we going to do?’ but ‘Who do we intend to be?’” —Max De Pree, Herman Miller

As leaders we spend a lot of time [...]

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Persistence: The key to the achievement of meaningful goals

30 April 2008

 

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“Persistence isn’t using the same tactics over and over. That’s just annoying. Persistence is having the same goal over and over.” – Seth Godin on Persistence

As leaders it’s importance to be persistent. Anything worth achieving in life requires constant effort. Just having a meaningful goal is not enough, to make [...]

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Three criteria for defining a worthwhile goal

22 April 2008

Leaders set goals that inspire and challenge. Goals energise people when they are well defined, provide meaning and give direction. Sadly leaders often set goals that are ambiguous, unrealistic and uninspiring, for example “providing a superior return to shareholders”. So how do leaders go about defining a worthwhile goal? In the book “A Bias for [...]

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