Learn more about productivity with this collection
How to start a successful business
How to build a strong team
How to market your business
When a new task comes along, ask yourself if it is in line with your major responsibilities. If the answer is no, then ask yourself if the task needs to be done at all or if maybe you aren’t the person best suited for such a job.
If you are part of a team, delegate it to a fellow teammate or, if not, to a junior associate. It’s important to not do work that is inessential to your main duties. Delegating work will ensure that the right tasks go to the right people.
8
19 reads
MORE IDEAS ON THIS
Multitasking can actually cause us to make more mistakes and retain less information.
Switching between tasks causes our brain to have to shift gears, wasting time and energy that could be put to better use focusing on a single task. Multitasking can be a difficult habit to...
11
105 reads
Learning how to say no can be a tough skill to acquire. No one wants to upset or disappoint colleagues and bosses, or worse, turn down crucial career opportunities.
8
14 reads
Spend only as much time on decisions, tasks, and activities as they are worth.
The key is to identify low-value operations or any type of work that doesn’t advance your main work objectives. These tasks are usually the easy and comforting ones, like reorganizing your worksp...
8
15 reads
Related collections
Other curated ideas on this topic:
To delegate efficiently, ensure you choose the right person for the job with the necessary skills.
A pause creates space to start paying attention and ask yourself a few questions to access your results: Are you focused or distracted? Why?
It’s an opportunity to analyze every task or action, and identify items you can move around, delegate or even stop working on right away i...
Plan your morning the night before and stick to your plan.
If a new task comes in that isn’t 100% urgent, designate a time that you’ll work on it uninterrupted or try to delegate the problem solving as much as possible until you have time to deal with it.
Read & Learn
20x Faster
without
deepstash
with
deepstash
with
deepstash
Personalized microlearning
—
100+ Learning Journeys
—
Access to 200,000+ ideas
—
Access to the mobile app
—
Unlimited idea saving
—
—
Unlimited history
—
—
Unlimited listening to ideas
—
—
Downloading & offline access
—
—
Supercharge your mind with one idea per day
Enter your email and spend 1 minute every day to learn something new.
I agree to receive email updates