You cannot build a reputation on what you are going to do. Henry Ford
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If you want to reach your goals it is necessary to formulate a strategy. You need a top-level overview of your organization to do your best and motivate your team.
“Thinking strategically“, a free ebook that you can download at Bookboon.com, provides useful suggestions in order to help simplify your work.
In this book, Dr. Chris Peterson, Professor at Michigan State University, provides a list of what he calls the six P’s of thinking strategically:
1. Plan – action that you have consciously intended
2. Ploy – What you will do to out-do the competition
3. Pattern – Establishing success as a consistent event over time
4. Position – Creating and holding a market presence
5. Purpose – Direction as a collective group
6. Push – Goals that stretch the organization – push them outside the existing comfort zone of performance
Bookboon provides a collection of valuable free ebooks for professionals.
The subject of the Diplocalendar 2012 for the month of September is Multitasking.
The opposite of delegation, multitasking is an attempt to divide your mind and attention into several activities that you attempt to do all at once. Few people learn to do this successfully; in general it’s a recipe for failure.
More inspiring subjects on Diplocalendar 2012 that explores in both a serious and lighthearted way, some elements of interpersonal relationships and management that can help in daily activities.
Everything should be made as simple as possible and not simpler, Albert Einstein
The word NO is a great time saver. Say NO to anything that is not the highest and best use of your time. Brian Tracey.
Source image: The New Yorker