Five Pragmatic Practices
Posted on November 8, 2006 Comments (2)
Becoming a Great Manager: Five Pragmatic Practices by Esther Derby 1) Decide What To Do and What Not To Do
Deciding what to do and what not to do helps focus efforts on the important work – work that will contribute to the bottom line of the company. Articulating a mission has another benefit: When everyone in your group knows the mission and how the work they do contributes to it, they will be able to make better decisions about their own work every day.
2) Limit Multitasking
3) Keep People Informed
4) Provide Feedback
5) Develop People
I don’t see these as new ideas that have not been discussed before. But this article does a nice job of covering some good ideas. Taking the time to read this article can help remind you of some good practices you may neglect.
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September 5th, 2007 @ 8:03 am
“On average, workers are interrupted once every ten and a half minutes, according to Gloria Mark, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, who studied the cost of worker multitasking. Once interrupted, it takes a worker 23 minutes on average to get back to the task she was working on…”
September 18th, 2007 @ 11:08 pm
Working at home allows me some time to concentrate and focus with fewer interruptions (and ones easier to ignore if I really need to focus)…