Continuously evaluate core versus non-core
How to be less pre-occupied with non-core activities
There is an old joke which often does rounds in cricket
academies: match days are better, as it means 8 hours of work. Otherwise on
regular days, training, fitness clinics and team meetings total up to 12 hours
of occupation. Corporate executives are no better placed than their sports
counterparts in physical and ofcourse mental devotion required to pursue their
goal. In corporate world, the biggest culprits which suck time and energy out
of a manager are travel, non-core meetings and report-generation. These
physical activities consume thinking time, with the result the managers are
increasingly becoming transactors and purveyors of information rather than
providing experiential insights. Thinking, leading to generation of alternative
plans, needs warm-up time. It cannot be intermittent plug-in, plug-out process.
Corporate events coupled on top demands of family, health and fitness
times are taking a toll of a manager’s ability to think beyond routine. CEO
aspirants continuously should evaluate core versus non-core and planned
versus routine. On an annual basis, they should at least discard or shy away
from participating in two or three routine-forums and delegate their
team-members instead, including, foreign trips. That lets an individual being
on top of the events, rather than events engulfing the individual.
BY R Suresh, MD, Stanton Chase has recruited more than 100
CEOs and witnessed hundreds more trip at the last hurdle. This column is for
the hopefuls
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