Synchronizing your Company’s Priorities with your Employees

In a world where millions of things shout for your attention, there will never be enough money to buy all the things that suit your fancy, or the time to do all the things you want to experience.

The key is to focus and prioritize. First Things First.

In the company, there is the same problem. when you assign tasks, employees take time to do it, because they also have their own task list to do. If you have people who know how to prioritize, and whose priorities jives with yours, you are lucky. But most likely, you face the regular prospect of employees not doing the important things because they got caught up with things they want to do first.

It may be that these things are easier to do, or not really important at all.

I believe that when you head an organization, the matter of success is directly correlated not only on how capable your members are, but how your priorities and focus jive ad gets done. What do you think?

Knowing How to Motivate to get Things Done

There is a famous anecdote about Andrew Carnegie which illustrates his understanding on motivation.

During one of his meetings with his sister Lucy, she heard her sister complained that her son was not answering her mail while he was in college. Without missing a beat, Carnegie told her sister that he could bet her $10 that he would write the young boy, and get a response.

Andrew drafted a nice letter to his nephew, and added a postcript that he was enclosing a cheque for $10 ( this was during the 1880s) as a gift. He then deliberately left the check out of the envelope.

Indeed the young boy wrote back immediately to his uncle, telling him that he is gratified by the gift but distressed that probably the cheque has been lost. Carnegie immediately presented the letter to his sister. His sister paid him $10 for losing the bet and Carnegie immediately sent off the $10 off to his nephew.

Knowing what drives people to do the things we want them to do can be a key to managerial success, and leadership excellence.