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If you bump into problems with a rule or policy, question why you have it. In the end they took my advice and worked it out.īefore you make a policy, question why it’s needed. That rule would apply to everyone regardless the circumstances and I assured them that in the long run it would be a net negative. I replied by saying I could do that…create a new rule, but it would come with a price.
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They wanted me to issue a decree that defined how everything was supposed to turn out. I remember counseling three employees who were at odds with each other. It’s certainly easier than going through a complex hiring process to find good people.Īnd of course, we are people and we don’t always get along. It’s usually because there are a lot of people to manage and it’s easier to point to a set of rules than it is to effectively communicate the desired outcome. Check out the whole NYT profile: For This Guru, No Question Is Too Big.At some point, you have to have policies and procedures. Collins’ painstaking workflow ranked him even higher in my book. Usually I’m distrustful of anyone who gets called a “guru” (note that people have called me that, much to my dismay), but I really enjoyed Good to Great. “Zen you must not build a big organization, because zen you will end up managing zat organization.†Drucker asking him, trying to capture his mentor’s Austrian accent. €œDo you want to build ideas first and foremost?†he recalls Mr. Drucker, the pioneer in social and management theories. Collins had with one of his mentors, the late Peter F. This orientation — a willingness to say no and focus on what not to do as much as what to do — stems from a conversation that Mr. Then he regularly logs the times into a spreadsheet.Ĭollins also logs how many hours he spends sleeping, at night and during naps, and logs a rolling average which he compares to the amount of sleep he needs over 10 days (70 hours).Ĭollins is also laser-focused on being a ruthless editor, and saying no to taking on too many speaking engagements or consulting gigs (at a hefty $60-65k a pop), book tours, or staff members. Collins, who is 51, keeps a stopwatch with three separate timers in his pocket at all times, stopping and starting them as he switches activities.
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That, he explains, is a running tally of how he’s spending his time, and whether he’s sticking to a big goal he set for himself years ago: to spend 50 percent of his workdays on creative pursuits like research and writing books, 30 percent on teaching-related activities, and 20 percent on all the other things he has to do.Ĭollins is a whole lot more diligent about tracking his progress than I’ve ever been, though. I’ve got my own pie chart of how I want to spend my time, so it was fun to hear that Jim Collins, author of bestselling book Good to Great, also has a similar breakdown, pictured right.
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