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    Being the Action-Man in Business: How to start making things happen today!
    Being the Action-Man in Business: How to start making things happen today!
    Being the Action-Man in Business: How to start making things happen today!
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    Being the Action-Man in Business: How to start making things happen today!

    By Damon Lundqvist

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    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

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJNR Publishing
    Release dateMar 5, 2016
    ISBN9781310957550
    Being the Action-Man in Business: How to start making things happen today!

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      Chapter Introduction

      What differentiates a good corporation from a great one? What makes the difference between a so-so company and a good one? What sets the so-so, good, and great from the not-so-good or the downright bad? Decades of research and reams of paper have been dedicated to answering these questions, and the responses, like the companies themselves, run the gauntlet from possibly plausible to the truly possible answer. The best idea yet is the one telling us great managers are not great because they are good motivators or public speakers; they are great because they are able to keep their eyes on the goal, and effectively apply willpower to achieving it. Great managers ‘keep their eyes on the prize’ and harness their willpower, and the willpower of their employees, to get the job done.

      Great managers 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. Without corporate support, the normal environment in the majority of companies today drives a purposeful action-taker out of the company and into his or her own business; normal corporations micromanage, nitpick, and dither; they pay far too much attention to internal politics, and to ‘towing the company line’ instead of encouraging innovative actions. In order to keep purposeful people, the culture must encourage this philosophy and behavior.

      Chapter The Personal Dimension

      What does it mean to be a purposeful action-taker? It does not mean taking the shotgun approach to problem-solving – the approach where, when a small problem occurs, you take a metaphorical shotgun and blast the problem out of existence. Unfortunately, you create a whole host of related problems during the process. This approach leads to a crisis-mode of doing business, and you wind up spending your time fighting fires of your own creation instead of progressing towards a goal. Purposeful action-taking means taking consistent, concise, and energetic steps working towards achieving a goal. This is an intentional method of eliminating distractions and getting results, not just an effort to appear as though you’re busy. Achieving purposeful action-taking in practice means defining clear goals, with clear mental images and intentions of how to achieve the goal;

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