Perform Your Tasks Properly
Keep moving on the route towards excellence, without diverging your "traffic" of efficiency to a wrong direction.
Buzz... buzz... buzz...
For about 10 minutes now, a fly has chaotically been fiddling right round me. I'm sitting at my desk, over my computer, spewing my mind into the last chapter of my latest book. Because of the buzz, that's getting more and more grating and annoying, I can't focus at all on my work. I decide it's time for me to seal the deal. I'm going to try and snap that devilish thing, if not, at least chase it out to the window, back to where it crept from. I'm focusing on that tiny little beast.
I'm hunting its abrupt fly, every twist, every "lay-over" next to my desk. Bang ! All of a sudden, the fly piles on right beside my printer. There's a fair-sized elbow room to get it. I roll up lightly, cat-walk style, avoiding spontaneous movement; I see it close by, right round the corner, that's unthinkable to miss it. Crack ! I hit it ! What a glorious fun, what a pleasure rushes through my veins for defeating my enemy. Enough with the buzz and the trouble, I can grapple my pen again. I've already wasted about a quarter of an hour with ruling it out.
I sit comfortably in my chair and I start to type. I feel livelier, more able-minded to pursue my work. It is quiet - a nice quiet, full of intimacy. And suddenly, in that silence, from somewhere close by, is heard again that awful noise. Buzz... buzz... buzz... another fly pierced through the window.
Leadership: Do you make the mistake of believing that you can keep the score of 2-0 in your favor in the game with the experience of evaluating the things that you focus on, without exceeding the limits of the detachment from yourself?
A leader extracts value from personal experience by evaluating the things he focuses on, but not from the perspective of satisfying his own needs, but from the perspective of understanding life. For him things are like paintings, under which something, an idea or a concept is hiding, in no way represent a return to attitudes that are typical of reactions that can be said to express physical or psychological constraints reflecting the factor of "limitation" in terms of orientation.
Concentration is a form of special attention and is the most important factor to achieve maximum results, fast and efficient in our work. If we want to achieve good results, then we must focus only on the tasks we have to meet, giving up the ability to see the things that interposed between what you have in the "dish" and your reaction to what is happening to you in this situation.
We have the power to choose the work on which we focus on, regardless of what happens around us, no matter who diverts us. We can choose to concentrate on primary things or to badly heed on frivolous, twelve-penny things. The main rule in our activity is to opt for always concentrating on the most important goal, despite the things that happen around us. We are the ones who decide how requisite is to achieve the goal we designed ourselves for, we are the ones to determine the one thing we have to lay our focus on in order to achieve our goal.
Leadership: Do you represent in a pattern of efficiency your natural tendency to visualize things: as a whole that fulfills your existence, or as part of a load that narrows your horizons?
Whenever you have to fulfill an important task and especially if you proposed or you were imposed a deadline, you need to focus quite right alone on it and not to allow bluffing around until you put it through vividly. Your evolution within the company you pertain to often depends on your ability to focus on one task you have to fulfill before the deadline. And in crisis situations, when various demands arise, you cannot afford to waste your time or not to proceed in a professional manner.
It is strange that many people do very much so - they always waste their time, always lose time chasing after flies, hoping that someone will finally betake their duties and fulfill them. Other people devise other ways of pottering, very obvious, like taking smoking or lunch frequent breaks.
What thoughts float through your head about the employee that takes a cigarette break every 10-20 minutes or that, all day long, from the moment he gets to work till he finishes his duty list, his brunt is to vanish himself to the shop across the road to get something to eat? You can't ditch those kinds of people (especially in public offices and public services) that fudge, ill-disposed and that, at the end of the day, they will advocate fiercely and with formal arguments that, in fact, they didn't enjoy enough time to accomplish their duties. Oh... so much sweating !
Leadership: How many expectations do you have of what surrounds you when you place yourself on a level of understanding and responsibility close to the context of a misunderstanding of your goal?
A misunderstanding of your goal resembles a fly hunt: you are entitled to catch them, but because their number is too big, it just so happens that most of them will escape.
Leaders have great expectations from their team members. They do not want under any circumstances be simply spectators in their team to carefully monitor "on edge" those who really give their best interest to work helping the company achieve its objectives. The team-members need to heavily endeavor in order to lighten the leader's burden, to bring their contribution to success of the company. They have to help him make the right decisions, come up with new ideas to improve the performances of the company.
Leaders are looking for serious and active people in their team that will make their contribution as more and more effectively as possible to the achievements of the company and that are willing to do what others refuse. You take delight to see how people you trustingly hand-picked to be part of your team are eager and impatient to put their talent, intelligence and dynamism to serve the company. And it's, indeed, a great joy to reward them for their hard work, for all the efforts they make in order to develop and streamline the activities within the company.
Leadership is the impossible you seek and find without running after supposed "equivalences" that lead you astray from the path of performance.
Conclusion: There's a huge difference between proficient people, the ones that are working to evolve professionally, and others, who don't show the slightest interest to do some good, efficient and strong work. What distinguishes qualified people from the crowd? Well, the first focus on achieving their goals, tasks and responsibilities that vest their position, the others "bend upon the flies". The latter will be expelled from the squad, while people with true values will be better rewarded.
In order to make the step to excellence, learn how to be productive - do not divert your "traffic" to efficiency to a wrong direction.
