Successful entrepreneurs have very low tolerance for those who habitually waste time and disrupt productivity.

I suggest “three strikes and you're out”.

Employee, vendor, even client: Explain why their behavior is incompatible with the way you work and/or interfering with your productivity and describe the substitute behavior desired.

Sit the vampire down for that talk three times.

Say: “Strike One, Strike Two, Strike Three – and you're out. Next!”

If you have vampires sucking your time now, make the list. Plan the talk to have with them on a 3 x 5 card with their name on it.

Go play baseball.

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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/