Posts Tagged ‘delegation’

Delegate Your Time Sinks and Reclaim Your Day

What’s the number one most effective way to make more time in your day? Get other people to do the things you’d normally be doing. Many people complain that there aren’t enough hours in the day when the problem is simply that there are too many tasks in their day that could easily be given away to someone else. You Can Afford It Even if hiring someone (probably a virtual assistant) to… Continue reading

April 29 2009 | By Joel | Tagged: assistant, delegation, effectiveness, efficiency | 4 comments»

Learning from A Master: Review of “Bear Bryant, CEO”

Richard Truman. 2006. Bear Bryant, CEO. Sweetwater Press. Legendary coaches are great sources of inspiration and wisdom, and Paul W. "Bear" Bryant, the iconic coach of the Alabama Crimson Tide from the late 1950s through the early 1980s, is revered as something approaching a minor deity in the state of Alabama. There is a museum named for him at the University of Alabama (my alma mater), and every year… Continue reading

March 23 2009 | By Art | Tagged: bear-bryant, change, coach, delegation, motivation, personal-development | 6 comments»

Happiness at Work – 12 Simple Ways to Make it Happen!

If you are a relatively junior employee at your company, though you carry out a very important role, you may not always be recognised. You might also face some of the following challenges:

Little fulfilment at work
Long working hours
Conflicting demands on your time and loyalty
Little balance between personal life and work commitments
Tight deadlines
Time management pressures
Strained relationships with the important people in your life
Tight personal finances
Lack of any say at

April 11 2008 | By Arvind | Tagged: delegation, eating, fun, happiness, health, Productivity, time_management, work, work-life balance | 18 comments»

How to Clone Yourself!

How many of us have wished at times that we could clone ourselves? Delegating to a personal assistant is a simple way to reclaim hours of your time and free you up to do what you are best at doing. Think this is not for you? Think again and read on! We’re going to cover how to afford it, how to find one, how to… Continue reading

March 20 2007 | By Lorie | Tagged: delegation, household, housekeeping, timemanagement | 8 comments»

Heresy and Progress

We live in world full of pressures to conform: to believe what others tell us is true, to toe the line, to accept the values of those in positions of power, and to follow conventional, approved paths. That's the way to get on in life and business, we are told. You need to fit in, play the game, and avoid rocking any boats. Fitting in and following generally accepted views on… Continue reading

October 9 2006 | By Guest | Tagged: accomplishment, achievement, career, civilized-work, consumption, creativity, decision-making, delegation, economics, enjoyment, freedom, happiness, kathy+sierra, leadership, lifebalance, Lifehack, Lifestyle, Management, micro-management, Money, priorities, prioritization, slow-leadership, spending, strategy, stress, success, time, work-life, work/life-balance, worklife | 1 comment»

Thinking About Trust

Trust in other people is one of the foundations for creating a civilized working environment. Many managers are overworked primarily because of a lack of trust. They take on too much themselves, because they don't trust their subordinates to do the work properly. They cannot allocate enough time to their own work, because they don't believe people will put in the required time without constant supervision. They attend pointless meetings… Continue reading

July 31 2006 | By Guest | Tagged: attitude, behavior, boss, burnout, business, businesslife, civilized-work, control, corporate-culture, delegation, discontentment, fear, happiness, leadership, lifebalance, Management, manager, micro-management, office-politics, organization, respect, team, teamwork, timemanagement, trust, work, work-life, work/life-balance, working, worklife | 3 comments»

Time To Discard The Portmanteau

Taking on too much, and not discriminating between what you can do and what you should, stops you from accomplishing what matters most. Continue reading

February 27 2006 | By Guest | Tagged: balance, delegation, development, life, planning, prioritization, Productivity | 2 comments»

5 Ways to Improve Your Productivity in the Office

It is possible to find extra time in your day simply by reorganizing the way in which you approach the tasks that fall within your responsibility. Take a look at each of the following areas of your working life and see where you can make improvements which will allow you to put more time into the things you really need to focus your attention on. 1. Communication One of the most… Continue reading

January 24 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: Communication, delegation, office, planning, prioritization, procrastination, Productivity | 16 comments»

Slow Down, Don’t Lead So Fast

Speed is everywhere. Fast cars, high-speed Internet connections, fast food, quickie divorces, "The One-Minute Manager." Is faster always better? I doubt it, especially when you're dealing with people. We may want to get our burger quickly, but who wants only a few moments of someone's attention? Continue reading

October 24 2005 | By Guest | Tagged: boss, delegation, leadership, Lifestyle, Management, organization, Productivity, relationship, speed, work-life | 1 comment»

Automated Email Follow-up

How can it be easier to know what to follow-up on tasks we have delegated or waiting for reply? Michael Hyatt over Working Smart has suggested a way on handling this. He uses GTD method on creating an context called Waiting For. First he setup an free email address and set it forward back to his own email address, and then: ... Okay, you’re ready to go. Now, whenever you… Continue reading

September 15 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: delegation, email, gtd, software | no comments»