1. Communication:
Which projects are moving slower than you prefer?, where are results suboptimal? where have i not achieved what i wanted to? I’d put forward that the answer usually lies within communication. Which person have you not truly listened to, understood, replied to, communicated with? As a rule, email is ineffective and most of us manage it poorly, at understanding and handling objections. If you are driving towards a result, pick up the phone, see them in person, seek first to understand, then to be understood.
2. Time management:
Start each day by asking “What are the 3 biggest things i can do today”. Focus on those. Apply the “Get Things Done” principle on the rest. GTD recommends anything that can be done in less than 2 minutes should be done now. The time you spend deciding to do it later, revisiting it, putting it off, is a multiple of the original.
