The art of good leadership….timing

It’s not an absolute, but in my opinion there are no secrets to time management… most really good leaders I have worked with are excellent at it.  What does that mean?  as most of these people are hard workers by most peoples standards.  What strikes me time and time again about really good leaders are they are soooooo focused. So focused that they find the means to delegate really well,  that they find the means not to be distracted by the small and inconsequential and they find the time to spend energy on those areas that makes a difference.  A feature of good leaders time management is that they almost never sacrifice face time with staff for task time.

When the genie of the magic lamp appears for me and grants me three wishes the first will be to ban time management programmes, they serve no useful purpose except to highlight how poor some of us are at focusing on the critical. People don’t need more time management tools they need  a clear purpose in life and their work and get on with it. All trivia will evaporate believe me.

The second wish would be interpersonal, very satisfying and not for publication on a blog.

Finally the last would be to improve the status of educators across the globe to that of the past where those that enabled the learning of others were seen to be wise and respected.  If we spent more time and got better people into our childrens education in the front end we as a society would spend less sorting out the mess later on.