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Time Management Resources

Time management is not optional if you want to be successful.  The most valuable currency you have in your business and life is time.  It is finite.  You cannot make more of it.  You can spend it wisely or waste it needlessly. The best leaders are always thinking of ways to maximize the ROI of their time and encouraging those around them to do the same.

Leadership Thought #319 – Strive to Operate at Your “Highest and Best” Use

There is a term commonly used in real estate when describing the value of an individual property called its “highest and best use.” The highest and best use is always that use that would produce the highest value for a property, regardless of its actual current use. I want to encourage leaders to think the same way about their own role. As the lead person in your organization, it is your responsibility to vigorously protect your time and activity. Any number of distractions will pop up in a given day, but they cannot be allowed to dilute your energy, talent and focus from what’s most important.

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Leadership Thought #311 – Both Time and Relationships Are Finite

I watched an interesting movie last night called The Way. It was written and directed by Emilio Estevez and stars his father Martin Sheen. In the movie a straight-laced somewhat taciturn father has to cope with the tragic loss of his 40 year old free-spirited son. The event took place while he was beginning a spiritual trek on “The Way of St. James” or “Camino de Santiago” which is an 800 kilometer pilgrimage (hike) through France and Spain to the burial place of Saint James. The father decides to complete the journey his son started and learns alot about himself and life along the way. As with most of his acting roles, it was a powerful and thoughtful performance by Martin Sheen.

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Leadership Thought #284 – How Do You End Your Day?

Ideally a person would want to use their time well and be highly productive and effective. They wouldn’t get easily distracted or lose focus. Instead of procrastinating on things they need to get done, they’d be disciplined about accomplishing what’s most important when it should get done with minimal stress. The days would flow smoothly rather than bounce around between shifting priorities and putting our fires. Time should be spent doing your own job not making up for the shortcomings of others. We also need to be smart enough to ask for help when we are in over our heads. If we are being honest with ourselves, we’d own up to the fact that most of the stress in our careers is self-created.

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  • Meeting Overload Is a Fixable Problem

    The authors of this piece have been studying how organizations can make the right things easier and the wrong things harder since 2014. In every workplace they’ve studied, helped, or worked at, they’ve found that meetings create wasteful and soul-crushing friction. To find out how to reduce that friction by “repairing” meetings, they conducted two […]

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  • How to Help an Employee Who Struggles with Time Management

     If you have direct report struggling with time management, it can be challenging to know how to address the issue. Fortunately, there are ways that you, as their manager, can help. Before you get frustrated or deliver a harsh feedback in an unproductive way, first consider yourself. Identify the emotions you’re feeling and why, and […]

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    Reading Excerpts

  • Time Really is Money By Rob Slee

      Chapter 1 – Introduction: “…most business owners spend almost all of their time on less than $50 per hour activities.  These activities are tactical, often clerical, and can be readily bought in the marketplace.”   Information Age Conceptual Age Aggregation Age Transformation Age 1950s 9/11/01 2010 2015 Left Brain Left/Right brain Right Brain/Left brain […]

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