Every beginning of the year, most of business organizations consider it the appropriate time to re-organize, move people either lateral or promote the most deserving employee. To the promoted employee, this means being in-charge of particular familiar tasks but the expectation of employer will now be on a higher level. Read the rest of this entry »
Every beginning of the year, most of business organizations consider it the appropriate time to re-organize, move people either lateral or promote the most deserving employee. To the promoted employee, this means being in-charge of particular familiar tasks but the expectation of employer will now be on a higher level.
There are guide to taking charge effectively and these are:
- Be able to set priorities. There is an old teaching regarding setting of priorities. Health comes first, second is family and business comes third. Better acknowledge the first two priorities so that the third priority can be taken cared of.
- Have the ability to take care of tough problems and not delegate them. The leader need to be deeply, personally involved in challenging issues and policy.
- Establish standards of excellence. Anybody who accepts mediocrity is a person who compromises. When a leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.
- Have that sense of urgency. It is better to do something, recognizing that it may not be the right thing, than do nothing at all. When a leader does not have sense of urgency, the bottom drops out of the organization.
- Be diligent on details. Getting the facts is the key to good decision making.
- Get the commitment of subordinates. Pick out the employees who are committed. Example, a person who does not fly into town on the morning of the meeting but flies in the night before to make sure that gets to the meeting on time.
- Don’t waste time worrying about things that cannot do anything about. Don’t try to fix things that are impossible. Concentrate on the possible.
- Have the ability of accepting failure. No enterprise can innovate unless they are willing to accept some mistakes.
- Be firm but fair with people. Being firm means setting standards and asking for acceptable performance.
- Accomplish anything by having some fun.
Every beginning of the year, most of business organizations consider it the appropriate time to re-organize, move people either lateral or promote the most deserving employee. To the promoted employee, this means being in-charge of particular familiar tasks but the expectation of employer will now be on a higher level.
There are guide to taking charge effectively and these are:
- Be able to set priorities. There is an old teaching regarding setting of priorities. Health comes first, second is family and business comes third. Better acknowledge the first two priorities so that the third priority can be taken cared of.
- Have the ability to take care of tough problems and not delegate them. The leader need to be deeply, personally involved in challenging issues and policy.
- Establish standards of excellence. Anybody who accepts mediocrity is a person who compromises. When a leader compromises, the whole organization compromises.
- Have that sense of urgency. It is better to do something, recognizing that it may not be the right thing, than do nothing at all. When a leader does not have sense of urgency, the bottom drops out of the organization.
- Be diligent on details. Getting the facts is the key to good decision making.
- Get the commitment of subordinates. Pick out the employees who are committed. Example, a person who does not fly into town on the morning of the meeting but flies in the night before to make sure that gets to the meeting on time.
- Don’t waste time worrying about things that cannot do anything about. Don’t try to fix things that are impossible. Concentrate on the possible.
- Have the ability of accepting failure. No enterprise can innovate unless they are willing to accept some mistakes.
- Be firm but fair with people. Being firm means setting standards and asking for acceptable performance.
- Accomplish anything b having some fun.
January 21, 2011 |
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Every person encounters failures along their life’s journey. No matter how hard they try to reach their dreams and aspirations, sometimes there are things that will go wrong along the way. Success, in many cases, is gained through long endeavor, though occasionally, it is achieved with less difficulty. After all, the harder the person has to work for the attainment of an object. The possession of the object will be more appreciated.
Do not be discouraged because of failure, it will be best to begin over again. Throughout the entire planet people are beginning afresh, there is no individual or an entire household who have not learned the lesson of beginning over. There is rebuilding done at all times of the year like: a pulling down of half finished plans, a ripping out of false stitches and a new start being made. There is also rebuilding done in relationships among friends, co-workers, family, business associates and individuals in a community. Take fresh courage, and try again, no matter how difficult it may be.
Try to break a spider’s web and observe, the spider will set work immediately to repair the damage. Rob a beehive, and the little occupants will go on making cells and gathering fresh stores of honey. Brush down an anthill, and the busy little ants will go to cleaning out the rubbish and rebuilding the demolished house at once.
It is always credible for every individual to be willing to begin afresh.
What is to be discussed are the general qualities and characteristics which lead to sound decision-making, and the kind of people who have them.
The characteristic or quality needed above all others in decision-makers is courage. This does not mean physical courage but it means moral courage. This is the kind of courage that enables any individual to face up to responsibilities and accept a position when the situation requires it.
Lack of moral courage excludes many in a different way highly qualified men and women from the executive levels. There was a study conducted by a laboratory of psychological studies among unsuccessful executives. They concluded that the principal reason for these executives’ failure is their inability to make decisions, which is the most common reason than lack of specific knowledge or technical know how.
By nature, human beings detest to make decision. It is generally more comfortable not to make decision. Almost everyone is conscious of this desire to put-off deciding. There are a few that are fully aware of the extent to which habitual inability to make decision interferes with the realization of full potentials and the attainment of goals in life.
Based on psychologists’ further study, they have discovered that every individual indulges in all kinds of unconscious techniques to cover up indecisiveness and these are:
- To procrastinate and just do not get involve in doing things.
- To allow and be controlled by chance, or just leave decisions to someone else.
- To make unclear the issues at times to some extent that leaves no basis upon which to make a decision.