14 simple rules: 1. Meet To Make Decisions Meetings steal time and leave less time to get things done. Therefore: No meetings longer than one hour. No meetings with more than 8 participants. No meetings without agenda and minutes. No meetings with more than 5 topics. 2. Stop The Presentation Cat Walks Keep Presentations to 15 Minutes max. Only one presentation in one meeting. Presentations should be fast to the point. Not more than 6-8 slides. Avoid the multimedia overkill. Put one idea per slide and do not clutter the slides. Presentations are meant to convince and to reach or to get a decision; and not to impress. 3. Use One Pagers If you can´t explain it simply, you don´t understand it well enough (A. Einstein). In other words: You need to be able to boil down your idea on a single page. State the context, issue and task at hand, objectives/strategy/action plan, resources needed, timelines and milestones. 4. Dont Breed Workaholics Work hard and smart. It´s a tough world. Sadly some companies go too far by considering it a badge of honor to live the idea of the workaholic. In reality, however, workaholics often are over-worked, cranky and tend to create more problems than they solve. Be a real hero in assisting your teams to get things done quicker and plan for sufficient downtime. 5. Leave Politics To The Politicians Keep office gossip, politics, and drama to a minimum. Cultivate an open, transparent, and personal atmosphere. Address tensions quickly and directly. Don´t tolerate bullies and backstabbers. 6. Plus One Minus Two Whenever you introduce something new (e.g. a new product, service offer, process, KPI, etc.) take out two existing, similar ones. It´s like following a health diet and working out at the same time. Careful not becoming too lean at a certain point however. You need sufficient energy to outrun your competitors. 7. Focus On The Future Unbelievable how many companies spend a huge chunk of time to analyze, and re-analyze past results. They have developed all sorts of metrics and often get lost within their cemetery of data. They´ve missed to define a limited set of relevant and simple KPIs. 8. Specify Clear Goals Set SMART goals: Specific (target a specific area), Measurable (quantify indicators of progress), Assignable (define who will do it), Realistic (state what results can realistically be achieved), Time-bound (specify when the results can be achieved). 9. Transparent And Need-Based Communication Say what you mean. People can handle it, if respectfully expressed. In times of information-overload keep the volume of circulating data and information to a minimum. Make sure that it is clear when to communicate what to whom. And not everything to everyone at anytime. 10. Dump Non-Successful Products And Concepts If a plan, etc. does not work although you´ve put lots of resources into it, change it. If still not successful, reduce your efforts and throw less at the problem. More people and more money makes the problem just bigger. Don´t hesitate making the tough calls. 11. Don´t Penalize Failures Making mistakes is a major element of the learning process. Fact. If employees know that failure will be punished, they will stay on the safe side and will not trial new things. Fact. As a result the organization will be less creative and innovative. Again, fact. 12. Learn From Successes At the end of the day, there is only so much you can learn from mistakes and failures. You just learn what you should not do. Learning from successes is about building upon what worked. 13. Be Clear About Priorities Fewer, bigger, better. Not more than 3 major initiatives/projects should be handled by any organization at the same time. In parallel decide and empower the teams to stop non-priority tasks. 14. Stop Talking And Get Started Ideas are plentiful and the perfect solution does not exist. What really matters is what you do at the end. Thoughts, words, and plans without actions do not generate sales. The success formula: decide, begin, move on, and execute in excellence. Groom a spirit of action. Credit to: https://linkedin/today/post/article/20140220193318-175081329-14-simple-rules-to-become-the-world-fastest-company?trk=eml-ced-b-art-Ch-4&midToken=AQFA3FdPLE_5cA&ut=2bVw_fzX6dfC81
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