Taken from an article on Leadership by Dave Anderson in Oct edition of Dealer Magazine
Seduction is defined as: enticing someone from the right behavior; to lure or entice away from duties, principles or proper conduct.
Seduction 1: Leaders are seduced by motion.
When seduced by motion you can find yourself immersed in such a frantic swirl of daily motion that you routinely confuse activity with accomplishment, put second things first, do the wrong thing often and well, and achieve little meaningful results by days-end.
The following are questions to help diagnose your proneness to being seduced by motion.
-Do you schedule priorities and work the rest of the day around them, or do you try to cram your priorities into a haphazard day?
-Do you feel a false sense of accomplishment because you've been too busy and in motion all day, or do you rate your effectiveness by weather or not you spend enough time on the right things?
-When you get off track and begin to major in minor things, how quickly do you catch yourself and correct your course?
-Do you survey your department are you at ease because everyone appears busy, or do you dig deeper to determine if they are actually doing what is productive and will lead to results? In other words do you confuse their doing a lot with doing what matters? Is each members day planned in advance, and do you review their plan to help them determine daily priorities?
Remedy: Measure your personal and team's effectiveness by what you put into the hours, instead of the number of hours you put in. Resolve not to confue motion with progress.
No comments:
Post a Comment