Our reality today is characterized by way too much information and data, and by increasing number of tasks (heavy multitasking). We live in an ever-changing and complex business environment where the future is impossible to predict, and there are full of events that cannot really be seen clearly and their effect is pretty blurred.
In this reality I don’t work with time management as an executive coach. I only work with FOCUS. I work with my clients on consciously applying the good old PARETO LAW (the 80-20 rules) in their leadership operation.
What does it mean? Did you know that…….?
- ‘80% of the traffic jam happens to be on 20% of the roads
- 80% of the classroom’s activity generated by 20% of the students
- 80% of the time you wear 20% of your clothes (I tested this one.
) - 80% of the profit comes from 20% of the client portfolio
- 80% of the total sales revenue generated by 20% of the salesforce
)and
- 20% of your results achieved by 80% of your time invested’
Hang on a minute! How is this? We do too many things, and what we do is not what we should do!?
If we want our life to be less complicated and more productive we should focus our attention onto the best 20% of what we do.
- What’s the 20% of your tasks which can bring you 80% of the results?
- Where and how you can use the Pareto Principle in your day-to-day activity, in your client portfolio and in your leadership?
- ‘How can you become the leader of few things instead of the doer of the many things?’
Many of us think we are able to attend many things at the same time, but actually what happening is that you divide your attention amongst many things. Not paying full attention to one thing. And if you are not paying full attention to one thing, or I would rather say anything, YOU CANNOT EXCEL…….
There is a Hungarian saying: Who grabs a lot takes little.
How much do you grab?