As a broom and a triangle will help all to keep pace

1. Refer to the business triangle 'money - time - quality "

And remember that the triangle is always worth two points. This is perhaps the best example of a clear prioritization.

You want to do the task quickly and well? Be prepared to invest in additional resources. You want to save money? Choose than willing to sacrifice: time or quality? That is, the task can be performed for a long time, but it's good. Or do it quickly, but perhaps not in full.

I do not recommend to use only the Business Triangle in solving their business issues, but also to remind about it to colleagues or managers.

"Do well, Cheap and yesterday", - it is non-operating scheme.

2. Delegate all the "cheap" problem

I rule I learned from his former boss. On small matters, he said: "My time is too expensive to do it."

use Pareto law: Spend 20% of time and effort that will bring 80% of the benefit. Do not waste your time on trifles. The main secret of time management: all cases can not be undone, so humble yourself at once that irrelevant task will never be fulfilled. If you can - delegate. You can not - give up on small tasks.

3. Meet with a broom

Important: if all the time to delegate, then at some point you may find that you are a very bad idea, how to construct the processes at the local level. Therefore, from time to time to do the usual routine tasks independently. For example, an article in the admin zaverstat or create an ad slot.

It is believed that the ideal editor in chief - someone who can in case of emergency to perform all work on the site: from writing articles to the selection of photos, its processing and production. This may never happen, but understanding the intricacies of the interior kitchen make you a stronger leader.

The ability to do the work of the black - it is not micromanagement. Most often due to such "raids" and spot checks you recognize that even in the project can be improved. Specifically pick the time to do manual work, it is not necessary. Usually all by itself happens when someone from subordinates or colleagues goes on vacation and you're on time, you take over their responsibilities.

American businessman Andrew Carnegie, referring to college students in Pittsburgh, said he is very useful in the initial stage career "To meet with a broom." But remember about the broom is useful even when, as it seems, you reach the top.

In the series "Acute visors" have such a dialogue:

- What are you doing Tommy? (What are you doing, Tommy?)
- Shovelling shit, Curly. Just like you. (Shoveled manure shovel, Curley. Just like you.)
- Why're you doing that Tommy? (Why are you doing, Tommy?)
- To remind myself, who I'd be, if I was not who I am. (To remind myself of who I was, if I was not who I am).

4. Remove Facebook from your phone

Read the tape from the computer while drinking tea, but not often. Do not waste time on endless view other people's pages. As long as you do it, it passes your own life. messengersSo be it, leave, only to turn off notification. There is no such important cases that could not wait even a few hours. If a person really is something urgent, he'll call. And you will not be distracted and can concentrate on core tasks.

5. Learn basic speed reading

We live in the information age, and everything to keep up, you need to be able to navigate it. Speed ​​reading It helps to surf / scan information sources faster. Many worry that after the speed reading has not come to read books in a relaxed mode, but it is not so. This is a skill that can be controlled, and only you decide at what point to use it. Roughly speaking, you can walk five kilometers per hour, and can run for 20 minutes. It all depends on your needs.

Speed ​​reading does not imply an understanding of everything that you read. This method was created primarily in order to grasp the common sense and isolate from the total mass (and sometimes water) is really information you need.

Speed ​​reading can be separately learned. For example, in the books or courses. And you may have already formed the so-called intuitive speed reading. Usually come to him people who read a lot and at some point, have developed a system of rapid absorption of information and often do not realize it. For example, only when I went to a speed reading course, I learned that I have, and so a good result - 535 words per minute.

6. Use voice dialing

Desyatipaltsevym blind seal on the computer for a long time we have mastered, but phones with the same speed typing still does not work. When you're on the road or on the go, use the voice recognition speech. For example, such a default function is integrated into the keyboard Gboard. Yes, somewhere will have to improve, but in general it is very comfortable.

Also underestimated feature T9. The current AutoCorrect is very smart, she remembers the popular scripts and offers the most likely to use words and phrases.

Save time and effort even in small things.

7. Do not respond immediately to emails

I call it the rule of 10 minutes. Do not reply to the letter as soon as it comes to you. Give it a "lie down." I recommend to do it for three reasons.

• The faster you answer, the faster will come to you in response to another letter. That is, you will only hasten the wheel posts.
• We often have not the most pleasant writingAnd quick answers is sharp and rough. Pause at least 10 minutes helps to calm and measured response.
• Without answering this very minute letters, you teach people to solve their own issues. Very often we are "bullet" into each other messages, but there are issues that can be solved in other ways. Remember to "wick", the Soviet satirical video magazine, was a story about the cars and the depot? Wait 10 minutes - and during this time the situation can change 10 times or even become irrelevant.

8. take a month off the last Friday

At the expense of a vacation or even at their own expense, to put things in order. Magic cleaning is needed not only in the house. To deal with the documents, go to the doctor, to arrange shopping in an empty mall or elementary sleep - you will be surprised when you see how many businesses will be typed. And at the end of the day feel relieved or even an easy euphoria - about the same as after parsing wardrobe.

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