Being the Action-Man in Business

Great leaders are purposeful action-takers; this means they don’t get bogged down in the sometimes overwhelming amount of work on their desks – they purposefully work towards the achievement of their defined goal, whatever it may be. Great managers don’t try to do more things – they focus on doing the right things, and in getting them done. Becoming a purposeful action-taker is a process, with both organizational and personal parts. The personal part is to become a purposeful action-taker yourself; the organizational part is fostering purposeful action-taking in your corporation, so the manager can actually be a purposeful action-taker, and lead his or her employees to be the same.


CONTENTS


Introduction


The Personal Dimension


The Organizational Dimension


Purposeful Action-Taking


The Frenzied


The Procrastinators


The Detached


The Purposeful


Develop Your Energy and Focus


Build Your Reserves of Willpower


Align Your Emotions with Your Goals


Overcome the Traps of Inaction


Overwhelming Demands


Unbearable Constraints


Unexplored Options


Taking Action at the Corporate Level


Overcome Internal Challenges


Weave Action-Taking into the Culture


Give Your People the Freedom to Act