"Effective manager" Reading notes one

Managers must work effectively, a person's ability, only through a methodical, systematic job, can produce benefits. In every institution, there are always some extremely effective industrious people, when others are too busy to be confused (people often mistakenly think that busy is an energetic performance), those effective diligent people like the Turtle and Rabbit race fairy tale, down-to-earth, step by step, the first to reach the destination. Every day a busy and inefficient work without purpose will eventually accomplish nothing.
Intelligence, imagination and knowledge are important resources for us. However, resources themselves have certain limitations, and only through the effective work of managers, can these resources be translated into results.
The following five items are the habits that must be cultivated in order to be an effective manager:
1. Effective managers know where their time is. The time they can control is very limited, they will have a systematic work to make good use of this limited time.
2. Effective managers value their contributions to the outside world. Instead of working for work, they work for results. They will not get into the job at the beginning of the work, not to explore the technology and means of work, they first asked: "What other people expect me to do."
3, effective managers are good at using strengths, including their strengths, the strengths of the boss, the strengths of colleagues and the strengths of subordinates. They are good at seizing the favorable situation and doing what they want to do. They will not build their work on their shortcomings, and will never do what they can not do.
4, effective managers focus on a few important areas, in a few important areas, if you can have excellent performance can produce excellent results. They set priorities according to their priorities and stick to their priorities. They know: things first. Important things to do first, unimportant things put on, there is no other way, otherwise there is nothing to accomplish.
5, finally, effective managers must be good at making effective decisions. They know that effective decision-making is about the organization and order of things, that is, how to take the right steps in the right order. They know that an effective decision is always judged on the basis of a "different opinion discussion" and that it will never be the product of a "consensus" opinion. They know that fast decisions are mostly bad decisions, and the number of really essential decisions is not large, but they must be fundamental. What they need is a more correct strategy, not a dazzling tactic.