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BOOK - Effective Executive

Effective executives prioritize impactful goals, aiming for significant outcomes over safe or easy tasks. They favor future-oriented decisions and carve their own paths instead of following trends.

BOOK - Effective Executive

Effective Executive

3. Build on strengths

Make Yourself Effective
Multiply performance capacity through collective
Do the things you are best at
Choose to do the right things
Manage Your Boss
Build on your boss's strengths, in turn making the overall outcome effective.
Staff from Strength

4. Concentrate on a few areas that produce outstanding results

The more one can concentrate time, effort, and resources, the greater the number and diversity of tasks one can actually perform.
Concentration is the secret!

5. Make Effective Decisions

Focus on results not work
start out with what is right
make effective decisions

Executive realities

Know executive's time belongs to others
Keep on operating
See the things from inside, not outside
Know they are within an organization

Have a responsibility for an organization

Show you are willing to be accountable for certain results.
Responsibility should be result oriented

Effectiveness is not

What you want to do.
Inborn talent
Knowledge learned through books
Skills learned through training
Efficiency
Doing things the right way

2. Focus on Outward Contribution

Four basic requirements of effective human relations:
The right Human Relations

Development of others

Drive others to better themselves too

Self-development

Always looking for ways to better themselves

Communication

Be responsible for your contributions to the team

Teamwork

Contribution leads to communication, allowing teamwork to happen

Look for unused potential in your job.
Specialize in one thing.
Identify the goal and purpose of organization.
Direct results should be clearly visible.

1. Know Thy Time

Consolidate "discretionary time"
Group time together
Identify time-wasters
Too many people on a job can waste time.
Delegate what can be
Don't do what doesn't matter
if this were not done at all? If nothing…then stop doing it
Log ones time 2 x year
record, manage and consolidate as necessary.

Think and Say "We"

Need to put the needs and opportunities of the organization before themselves

Act

Make meeting productive
Focus on opportunities
Consider taking responsibilities
For communicating
For decisions
First thing first

Rules for determining priorities

Aim high, for something that will make a difference (vs safe & easy to do)
Choose your own direction-rather than climb on the bandwagon
Focus on opportunity rather than the problem
Pick the future against the past

Concept Map Outline

http://www.scribd.com/doc/3265819/McNeill-2007-Effectiveness-Concept-Map

Write an action plan

Statement of intentions that needs to include:
Get feedback
Basis of the time management
Check-in points
Future revisions
Probable restraints
Desired results

Get the knowledge

After doing top-priority tasks, reevaluate your priorities
What an organization needs
Set priorities
post-pone other non-priority tasks
What needs to be done

Effectiveness is

Reassessing decisions and situations to make sure they are right for the company
Setting up priorities
Five habits of the mind
The secret of which is concentration
Can be learned, must be learned
The specific technology of the knowledge worker in the organization
Getting the right things done