Introduction
Your time is valuable. It is your ultimate resource. The amount of things, people, and projects that are demanding part of your time is now an endless tsunami.
Once it was possible to address everything that came your way. But that time is long gone. To even attempt to give a moment of focus to everything clamoring for your time would be madness and a career trainwreck.
You are smart. You are valuable. You must consider your time to be a precious resource.
Constantly learning is the only way to keep your edge, your fire, and to get ahead and keep ahead of the pack. But which articles to read? Which business books? Which websites?
Business books are reviewed here and presented in a decision making format so that you can quicklly whittle down the flood to the few that really apply to your situation. To be sure, there are some books that should be read cover to cover, some that should be used as reference guides, and some that hold only interesting but not immediately applicable advice.
Before you buy any of them, use these reviews to narrow down your choices and to determine what you are actually reaching for.
Ultimately the goal is to better manage time so that there is enough to be effective at work, and enough to have a life outside of work.
Read well.
What the CEO Wants You to Know
Decision Path:
1. Are you a full time employee?
2. Are you a manager or above?
3. Are you new to corporate executive culture?
4. Do you want to learn how to have your responsibilities mesh with the 'big picture", the goals and objectives, of the entire company?
"What the CEO Wants You to Know: Building Business Acumen" by Ram Charan
Published by Crown Business, ISBN: 0609608398
Straight forward explanation of the importance of each area, each department, and each employee to understand the goals and objectives of the corporation and how there efforts fit into the whole.
There's no sunshine blown up your skirt. No fluff. And no amusing antidotes to keep your attention. Yet, surprisingly this book is easy to read and easily will keep your attention. It focuses in on the basics and explains them in clear and concise terms. In nine short chapters it will make clear why just doing the tasks assigned to you is not enough. It is critical that you understand how your efforts effect the whole. Critical both to the corporation and to your advancement.
This book uses some unique methods to bring home its points, such as an actual set of memos where the problem with the work that was done is explained in clear terms of what the corporate needs are, how the section fits into the goals and what is expected.
The book covers corporate thinking, how the pieces fit together, how a large business and a small business are no different regarding the basic businenss rules and how you must think about your efforts in order to be a successful and valuable part of the company.
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