Managing Purpose & Priorities with Richard Maybury
So, you are interested in networking and socialising with interesting people? People with more to offer than merely a pitch or an ‘elevator’? Fancy something different? Fancy a discount on the usual price of the event? You might want to look at this opportunity: Surrey IoD 859 Breakfast club + Pimms on the Lawn for one reduced combined price: [click to continue…]
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Everywhere I go, recently, people are telling me 2 things and I wonder if these are true for you?
In this environment it is more important than ever to be able to weld our overall purpose to our daily priorities. It is almost like the old days of separating our ’strategic thinking time’ from our ‘operational time’ is a luxury we can not afford. If we are to avoid chaos, however, we must have a robust, simple structure to our workload and priority management that allows us to think strategically whilst operating tactically.
This means, amongst other things, having a one-click view on what is important (professionally, personally, this quarter, next quarter and beyond) so that we can flex tactically with the explicit knowledge of the impact of that decision on our overall objectives.
Strategising will always be important – it is just that right now my sense is that conditionality, consensus, creativity and continuous anticipation and response-ability are more important than ever before. I’d really appreciate your thoughts here to help me firm up my own. You can shere your thoughts in the comments section below
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As someone with a reputation in time and priority management you would expect me to have some idea of how many seconds there are in a day (86,400 since you asked). It is not a big stretch to have an idea of how long a million seconds is. A million seconds is actually 11.574 days or almost 11 days and 9 hours and 36 minutes. BUT…. How long is a Billion?
I was blown away this morning when a Billion was put again into sharp perspective for me. A billion seconds is 31.709792 YEARS, which is almost 31 years and 8 months and 12 days and 29 minutes. That’s a massive order of magnitude! 11.5 days against 31.7 years!!
It is one thing to ‘know’ this intellectually; it is something else completely to ‘know’ this experientially.
11.5 days to repay £1million at a rate of £1 per second
31 years and 8 months and 12 days and 29 minutes to repay £1Billion at a rate of £1 per second
Tighten your belts, it’s going to be one hell of a ride!
If you want to make the most of every second you have, if you want a better way to weld your purpose to your priorities, you need to consider our support for yourself and your people now.
Till the next time…
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Life can be a roller coaster at times. Sometimes we are just about managing to juggle our competing priorities before they become conflicting priorities. Sometimes we are squeezed right up tight against a critical deadline. Other times we feel lost, cast adrift and long for the cut and thrust of meaningful activity.
Sometimes we can get caught up in the minutia of the moment and we can very easily loose our perspective whether we are too busy or not busy enough!
Here’s an exercise that I call PACTS which, in less than 5 minutes, can help us reconnect with our higher purpose whenever we need to (and that’s best done on a very regular basis!). [click to continue…]
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I will be re-launching the Institute of Directors (IoD) People Forum at the recently opened Bench Bar @ the wonderful University of Surrey Sports Park, Guildford Surrey, on Friday 14th May between 07:25 and 08:45.
The meeting has 2.5 purposes: 1) Mapping out what we, as forum members, want from the Forum 2) Networking with great people, sharing ideas and energy … and 2.5 exploring the fantastic www.surreysportspark.co.uk [click to continue…]
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I have been around a lot of talk this week on ‘Leadership’ and ’Management’. I suppose it is to be expected, given that I have been running various training sessions and forums over the week, ranging from a ‘Strategy in Action’ workshop that I ran for one client through to a ‘Welding purpose to priorities’ forum I facilitated and, finally on Friday, into discussions on ’Sales Strategy’ with George Petri and others after the unmissable IoD 859 Club. But today I was blown away… [click to continue…]
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One of the most misused digital tools outside email (of which there are numerous references in this blog) is Microsoft PowerPoint. A little like alcohol, used sensitively, it can enhance any occasion; used recklessly it will wreck any occasion!
A client has just mailed me a link to this New York Times article entitled: We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint Check out the PowerPoint slide there. I’m sure that much creativity, thought, care and time has been invested in the creation of this slide but was all that energy and time managed well? I’m not so sure! This link will take you to a full screen image of the slide.
Time to chuckle at one of my favourite Dilbert strips on PowerPoint Onwards and upwards!
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Another excellent kick-off to a Friday at Shipleys’Godalming office. Shipleys have developed a good community of business people who orbit the Godalming area. The business activities of those who attend often take them to far-flung places but I find the gravitational pull of their monthly meeting almost irresistible. It certainly sets me up for a good day!
Today we were discussing – among other things – ‘The magic number’ in social networking, otherwise known as ‘Dunbar’s Number’. As with many concepts that pass into popular usage, the ‘Magic Number’ is often misunderstood. Is it 150? What constitutes a community – or even digital ‘friend’ relationship?
Robin Dunbar’s article on the RSA website is a good place to start. The best real-world and readable critique of it that I have come across is that written by my friend Benjamin Ellis, the man behind Redcatco, who’s Dunbar’s Number -Groups, language and social media post is well worth reading.
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You need regular access to a particular folder within your Windows XP computer or network library to do your work or file new emails. You don’t want to navigate your way through the folder system (especially on the network!) each time. Here’s how to achieve that with Outlook 2007 on a Windows XP machine. [click to continue…]
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Gabriella Climi has come a long way in a short time. Her single ‘Sweet about me’ has sold over 2 million copies world-wide, she’s won numerous music awards and sang the Australian National Anthem at the Melbourne Grand-Prix last weekend. She’s just 18. And she has a secret – a secret you should know about. [click to continue…]
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