2. Effective managers insist on doing important things first and only do one thing well at a time. They concentrate on their own time and energy as well as that of their organization-on doing one thing at a time, and on doing first things first.
3. We should know to use the strengths of our superiors, which is the key to the fruitful work of our subordinates. Making the strength of the boss productive is a key to the subordinate's own effectiveness.
4. Effective managers focus on opportunities rather than problems. They focus on opportunity in their staffing-not on problems.
5. Effective managers must tolerate people's shortcomings while employing their strengths. The effectiveness executive knows that to get strength one has to put up with weakness.
6. A specific task of managers is to put today's resources into creating the future. To commit today's resources to the future.
7. Effective managers plan to do a new business, and must first delete an original business. The effective executive will slough off an old activity before he starts on a new one.
8. Effective managers all know that a decision does not start with collecting facts, but has their own opinions first. People do not start out with the search for facts, they start out with an opinion.
9. We should incorporate actions into decision-making, otherwise it will be an armchair strategist. A decision will not become effective never the action commitments have been built into the decision from the start.
1. Effective managers don't make too many decisions. What they do is all important decisions. Effective executives do not make a great many decisions.: they concentrate on the important ones.
11. Effective managers need the impact of decision-making, not the skills of decision-making; What is important is a good decision, not a clever one. They want to impact rather than skill, they want to be sound rather than clever.
12. "Concentration" is a kind of courage, daring to decide what to do and what to do first. Concentration-that is, the courage to impose on time and events his own decision as to what really matters and comes first.
There is always one, right?