Time is money is so cliche. Nevertheless, money is a quite accurate metaphor for time. Both are valuable. Both are in limited supply. However, with time as opposed to money, you can never check your balance. A wise leader understands… Read More ›
Time Competency
Graphic Leadership: Energy Allocation
Rather than thinking terms of minutes or hours involved in a project, discerning leaders process time allotment more in the context of their energy allocation. By way of example, a project that might take six hours to complete may actually… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Limited
As a leader, you are limited. Limited physically, financially, emotionally, and mentally. Sound too basic? I have seen countless leaders and aspiring leaders who tried to ignore this simple fact from time to time with devastating effects on his/her physical… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Give Yourself A Raise
As we’ve mentioned before, most leaders know how much they’re paid per hour even if they aren’t paid by the hour (see the poster Your Hourly Wage for more on this subject). When we visited that poster, we said that… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Your Hourly Wage
Whether you are paid by the hour or not, the wise leader knows what his/her hourly wage is by taking the amount of money s/he makes and dividing that dollar amount by the number of hours s/he works. This “hourly… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Self Discipline
It is my personal belief that everyone exercises self discipline. We all discipline ourselves. However, some people use more effective methods of discipline and hence achieve better results. Maybe we should stop for a moment and inspect the words “discipline”… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: The Pareto Principle
I encourage you after reading this commentary to take few moments Googling the phrase “Pareto Principle” and find all the different ways that this principle has been applied. Sometimes it’s referred to as the “80-20 Rule” — 20% of our… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Daily Do List
Andrew Carnegie at his heyday called in a time consultant and said, “Tell me how to get more out of my day. I only got 24 hours in a day. Tell me, tell me. How can I get more?” The… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: The 6×6 Plan
Do you have any trouble maintaining intensity in your life? Do you have trouble keeping intensity around the goals, the accomplishments that you want to achieve? The 6×6 Plan might work for you. The question is simple, “What six things… Read More ›
Graphic Leadership: Time Management
My favorite, most practical book on Time Management is the book, Getting Things Done by David Allen. I’ve given you a diagram here of his thesis for how to organize yourself in order to get things done in an efficient… Read More ›
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