Leadership & Growth Kamran on 18 Nov 2007 04:05 pm
10 Ways to Manage Yourself Better
To manage your business well, you first need to manage yourself better. Here are 10 useful tips for successful business leaders:
1. Don’t try to boil the ocean. Know the difference between difficult and impossible projects. Don’t waste a single second on the latter.
2. Learn how to praise in public but criticize in private.
3. You’ve got one mouth but two ears. Learn how to listen and listen well before you open your mouth.
4. Clean and dress the wound to cure the fever. Do not to punish people but solve the problems expressed by the people.
5. Serve first before you can lead. Be a good passenger before you drive others.
6. Learn constantly and once in a while, brush up on things that are not directly related to your field as well. If you run a gasket factory, go to an opera once a year and learn about the lives of famous composers to deepen your background. That depth will serve you well in many unexpected ways in different contexts.
7. You can lift ten pounds, and perhaps a hundred pounds, but you need a crane to lift a ton. Get qualified help and learn how to delegate to grow your business.
8. Have a clean conscience. Your should be able to look into your own eyes in the mirror comfortably before you can look into the eyes of the others and lead.
9. Don’t give up too soon. Remember, if you can’t get it right the first few times you try, you’re running just about average.
10. Don’t feel too self-conscious in whatever you do. Don’t cripple yourself with the anxiety of social criticism and judgment. People are usually too busy and self-occupied to notice what you are doing anyhow.