We usually overlook the emotional aspect of working with people while handling tight deadlines.

Leaders have to take simple actions like trusting and respecting their colleagues and team members, being true to themselves and have a clear understanding of the value of any work assignment, ...

• Focus on what's genuinely important in a day and do that, before checking your email.
• Check the email in time blocks, like once every 3 to 4 hours.
• Discard all impersonal unnecessary emails.
• Briefly answer messages that require an instant response.
• Use su...

Organizing for action means creating useful, workable and scalable systems that make us access information and track commitments quickly.
It means managing your email effectively and ensuring adequate follow-ups are done.

Time management practices require a change in behavior:

1. Know your purpose and establish why you need to change, identifying the benefits.
2. Create a vision of you being on top of your workday.
3. Observe the current cultural, organizational and personal pressures of your...

Most leaders have familiar approaches to managing time: setting goals, planning, delegating, tracking commitments, and creating to-do lists. While these approaches do help in self-organization, they are not adequate in helping achieve high levels of sustainable, long-term performance.

Phantom workload looks like real work but results in massive unproductivity and even conflict in an organization. The pressure to meet unrealistic expectations causes a vicious cycle of further workload.

Leaders need to take a hard look at what is being avoided or not addressed. Facing...

The mental domain consists of being able to think strategically, prioritizing between short-term and long-term goals, urgent and important activity, easy or difficult work, and the level of comfort in the tasks.

Our focus has to be on the long-term important tasks that seem diffic...