Prune time-wasters to be effective
from The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done by Peter F. Drucker
How to Apply This
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Identify all the time-wasters caused by a lack of system or foresight and prevent them from recurring.
A major symptom to look for is the recurrent crisis - a crisis that comes back year after year. -
Reduce your staff to a reasonable number that can do effective work.
Overstaffing is a great time waster in the sense that executives spend more than a small fraction of their time on human relations problems such as feuds and questions of cooperation. -
Limit meetings to purposefully directed ones.
An undirected meeting can be such a nuisance and time-waster for organizations. -
Communicate your visions, decisions and ideas effectively.
Poor communication could result in time-wasting as others could easily focus on the wrong tasks at the right time.
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