Consider the simple matter of phone calls – if a person engages in an average of four a day over 250 workdays, that's 1,000 in a year.
If, on average, they consume just 3 minutes more each day than you would have through tightly controlled end times and scripted days, that's roughly one whole week wasted – thus shortening your year to 51 weeks. In 10 years, that’s 500 hours.
The same math would apply to time given to social media or repeatedly negotiating with an employee over his repetitive bad behavior.
In summary, here are some of the key lessons from the way exceptionally productive people work:
- Accepting that no-one can manage time itself
- Learning from the three things that productive people do
- Recognizing the importance of identifying and focusing on five or fewer critical success factors
- Refusing to be spread so thin you have no impact
- Knowing that what you choose not to do is at least as important as what you do
- Applying financial accountability
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This is an excerpt from my book, “9 Rules For Business Prosperity in the New Economy”. The book may be purchased in both printed and Kindle editions at: http://arizonamarketingassociation.org/9-rules-business-prosperity/