"My priorities are...."- not so easy to determine
I believe as individuals we often do not know what we want. You would think that priorities would be easy and we can just say them. Unfortunately they are not.
How about in the business world? Should a company know its priorities? The answer is of course. This is often driven from the top executives.
While reading the book on decision making by the Heath brothers I learned of a study conducted by MIT. In the study they asked executives what are their top 5-8 problems. Easy enough.
A week later they came back and asked the executives to review their calendars. Amazingly enough there were no activities on their schedule that connected to the problems they had identified a week before. In other words, we can tell what we should be doing but it does not necessarily mean that we will do it.
Today's question is:
"Does your calendar reflect your priorities?"
I believe as individuals we often do not know what we want. You would think that priorities would be easy and we can just say them. Unfortunately they are not.
How about in the business world? Should a company know its priorities? The answer is of course. This is often driven from the top executives.
While reading the book on decision making by the Heath brothers I learned of a study conducted by MIT. In the study they asked executives what are their top 5-8 problems. Easy enough.
A week later they came back and asked the executives to review their calendars. Amazingly enough there were no activities on their schedule that connected to the problems they had identified a week before. In other words, we can tell what we should be doing but it does not necessarily mean that we will do it.
Today's question is:
"Does your calendar reflect your priorities?"
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