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Entrepreneur
"Time management" is kind of like infrastructure: Politicians complain that the latter is not a sexy topic and that no one wants to hear about it, much less deal with it. But we ignore it at our peril. Similarly, time management is an essential system that matters a lot to daily life: When it's not maintained, chaos can happen, just the way chaos happens — bridges collapse — when we ignore infrastructore.
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Harvard Business Review
In a 2013 survey of nearly 700 executives across a variety of industries, respondents were asked to rate the effectiveness of the top leaders of their companies. How many excelled at strategy? How many excelled at execution? The results are shown in the chart below. These responses are sobering: Only 16 percent of top leaders were rated very effective at either strategy or execution. Only 8 percent were very effective at both.
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Terry St. Marie More Human Leadership
I have this natural tendency to want to trust everybody. I know that's not good, so I have to fight that tendency, especially as a leader in the business world. Fortunately, (way, way back in 1982) I started my career as a CPA and auditor, and I learned about this thing called "professional skepticism."
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Forbes
There are a ton of qualities that can help you succeed, and the more carefully a quality has been studied, the more you know it's worth your time and energy. Angela Lee Duckworth was teaching seventh grade when she noticed that the material wasn't too advanced for any of her students. They all had the ability to grasp the material if they put in the time and effort. Her highest performing students weren't those who had the most natural talent; they were the students who had that extra something that motivated them to work harder than everyone else.
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By Catherine Iste
 The season of excesses is behind us — 2016 is here. With the same spirit you are shunning huge dinners and excessive shopping, I offer you this thought: Why not do without goals as well? Sure, maybe you could see taking the goal-setting down a notch in your personal life, but how can you do that at work without the ship steering into a rocky cliff? After all, you are leading, which means people are following you. Don't you need goals to know where you are going? Not necessarily.
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Harvard Business Review
We all fail, all the time. We might miss a call with a client because of an emergency work meeting, or miss that meeting because another project has suddenly become urgent. And then we (or our families) get sick, and we have to shift priorities around again. These unsystematic failures are benign, though. They reflect that all of us have limited resources.
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Fast Company
If you think your most important job as a leader is to write mission statements, set goals or even increase revenue, you're focusing on the wrong metrics. Your most significant role doesn't involve your results; your job is to inspire your employees' results, says Richard S. Wellins, co-author of "Your First Leadership Job: How Catalyst Leaders Bring Out the Best In Others."
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Switch and Shift
What does an understanding of pushing and pulling have to do with leading organizations? More than you might think. How often have you heard leaders say, "We need to figure out what drives our employees," or read blog titles proclaiming, "The 10 Drivers of Employee Engagement." Motivation isn't enough; you have to inspire your employees to strive.
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