The Road to Your Best Stuff by Williams Mike

Author:Williams, Mike
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Mike Williams Solutions
Published: 2010-07-29T00:00:00+00:00

II. Execution

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CHAPTER THREE:

The Organizational

Dimension

Get Organized.

GET a handle on your organizational self, and put together a base of resources that can help you multiply your effectiveness and balance your weaknesses.

Many people think of organization in terms of pulling others together and getting things done. Actually, it is more basic than that. Organization, in its most basic sense, is developing a pattern of work that allows you to be resourceful, productive and effective on a consistent basis. Then as you raise the bar on your success, by whatever definition of success you choose, you will be better able to attract and utilize others to help you multiply that success.

The world is full of examples of highly talented, very bright people who fail to make a significant impact because they failed to make good decisions. Or they failed to establish a standard and a mechanism for accountability. Or they failed to hear useful criticism because they were too busy listening to the applause. Or they failed to keep an open door to new kinds of thinking which could help them adapt to change and keep moving forward. Getting organized means getting yourself, the processes and the people into place, to insure the greatest possible results.

1. Assess what kind of self-manager you are.

Decide what assets and liabilities you have in attracting and utilizing resources.

Just as we examined what you would need to do, to go further personally and professionally, the same kind of attention is needed to determine what you will need to do, to mobilize and manage your own skills and talents, as you attempt to attract other resources. What this means fundamentally is that your own practices and the mindset that they represent are key to your own effectiveness and your ability to incorporate and utilize others.

People who keep track of their commitments and obligations are more likely to fulfill them. Just as people who put their goals into writing are more likely to accomplish them, not because they are profoundly written, but because on paper they become a visible reference for action, review and reference. It might seem all too obvious, but people who operate on memory leave themselves open to the gaps that occur when memory fails. Keeping track of things is the most basic key to effective organization.

A few years ago, when there was lots of attention being paid to time management, I was finding that my most effective and productive clients were those who took good notes, kept up with them, and forged their own methods for getting things done. Those who were inconsistent in meeting deadlines or standards were those who were inattentive to small things, or those who undermined the importance of people around them who paid attention to small things. The problem was not time management. It was management.

No matter what career path you pursue, there are other people who can help you plan and go after your next level of achievement. But in order for them to help you, you need to have easy ways for them to plug in and do what they can do and are willing to do.

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