Effectiveness; Determine and focus on meaningful priorities

Set priorities and stick to them. Develop and use tools to set and monitor priority progress. We perform better with a system of progress reports. Leaders need to concentrate on the few major areas where superior performance will produce outstanding results. If you did not focus on a specific priority, would it get done? Assign others to focus on secondary priorities.

Related Best Practices

• Focus for Success
• Effective CEO

Resources

• "The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done", Peter F. Drucker, 1966.

Author

The author of this page is Terry Gardiner

Terry Gardiner is the founder and President of Silver Lining Seafoods and NorQuest Seafoods - a medium-size Alaska seafood processing company; and currently a Board member of the Anvil Corporation, an employee-owned company specializing in oil and gas engineering.

His co-operative experiences include member director of the Commercial Fishermen Co-operative association; creation of legislation for the Alaska Commercial Fishing and Agriculture Bank; and advisor to the US Dept of Health and Social Services for the state Health CO-OPs.

Terry served ten years as a member of the Alaska House of Representatives -several legislative committee chairmanships, Speaker of the House, Chairman of the Alaska Criminal Code Commission and board member on various state and federal boards and commissions.

His non-profit experiences include National Policy Director for the Small Business Majority in Washington DC; working with the Herndon Alliance and ForTerra.

Terry authored the leadership book, "Six-Word Lessons to Build Effective Leaders: 100 Lessons to Equip Your People to Create Winning Organizations".

For more check: Terry Gardiner Long bio