Navigating the Leadership Paradox of When to Listen and When to Act
….and how to avoid having others put their monkeys on your back! Perhaps no other job I’ve had taught me
….and how to avoid having others put their monkeys on your back! Perhaps no other job I’ve had taught me
I’ll fallen for all the false promises around time management. Do this and find 30 more minutes in your day. Manage your calendar and marvel at how much you’ll get done and all the free time you’ll amass.
No matter how faithfully I follow the instructions, I’ve never achieved having any span of time, even 5 minutes, where I marveled at how much time I had “created” in my schedule and then wondered how I might use that time I’d freed up.
The reason is quite simple. We neither “create” time nor “manage” time nor “lose” time. Time is time.
So the question of time management is not outside of us (better planning, calendar tricks, a time saving device) but within us. How efficiently we use our time is within our control.
Discover what I’ve learned about time management, wise self-management, how to move away from busy and start embracing bountiful, and more.
In almost all instances, success precedes promotion. And for most of us, we say yes because we feel, at some level, confident in our ability to tackle the new role in a proficient manner. And then we land the new job, take on the additional responsibility, strike out into new territory. And all that we knew in our last job is suddenly not enough.
As leaders are faced with this reality, they have two basic choices…
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