Found this article that my father photocopied for me while I was cleaning up tonight. Thought I'd share it as I don't really do any of this and figured after typing it.. it might actually stick. Wishful thinking maybe.
The Globe and Mail
Monday, March 26, 2007
Management: The five practices of effective leaders
Effective executives use five practices, Joseph Maciariello of Claremont Graduate University notes in Executive Excellence:
- Manage time: Effective executives prune time wasters in order to achieve high priorities.
- Set priorities: That allows them to concentrate on opportunities that can produce superior performance.
- Make people decisions: They match the strengths of people with the assignments of a position.
- Abandon unproductive areas: They ask whether if they were not doing a particular activity, product of process, would they choose to get into it? If not, they consider whether it should be abandoned.
- Make effective decisions: They follow the right steps in the right order for good decision-making.
"Effective leasers create a spirit of performance by doing the right thing and getting the right things done," he concludes.
Not sure if always doing the right thing will make me effective at management. Doing the right thing, makes you 'that person'. I'm always 'that person' and I really don't consider myself a good manager. A bit of a pushover maybe, but agreeably not a good manager.
