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Showing posts with label Efficiency. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Efficiency - how more money in half the time

What is efficiency? The effectiveness is the ability to take advantage of your time, effort, resources and money (term) in a manner that brings to your business the greatest results.


How to get the best return for your efforts?


Prioritization, pure and simple.


Capacity so that you can take advantage of yourself in terms of time, effort, resources and money is possible by priority all the tasks in your company in their levels appropriate value.


Us would all agree that thousands of things that you have to do, each of these tasks have different levels of value.


Think of it, half an hour passed at Staples purchase trombones has another level of value to spend half an hour with a potential customer of great value.


In simple terms, certain tasks to create a better performance than others. You will make your business more effective by focusing your time and your efforts only on tasks that bring the greatest return, - an idea popularized by the Pareto principle, aka the rule of 80/20.


The 80/20 rule.


The 80/20 rule, says that of all the things that you, 80% of these tasks tend to bring 20% of the required results. On the contrary, 20% of the tasks get 80% of the results.


This means that we usually have a 25% return on most of our efforts. No wonder that we feel we work twice as hard and do half as much money!


You must spend the vast majority of your time, perform the tasks that come within the category of 20%. In doing so you drive the most valuable results.


How long? About 80% of your time should be spent on the 20% of high value tasks.


The key to this is to:


1. Identify your high - value tasks value is determined by the amount of income and profits a task brings you.


You will need to ask you the following, "" is?"" what I do make money If the answer is no, then there is good chance you should not do it.


2. Their scale, to get even more value to their part - scaling of the means to find another way to accomplish the task which translates more results with the use of less resources.


He could sometimes be as simple to do at a different time, or make another way, or with different people.


But the goal is to spend less (term) and make more profit.


3. Always get their fact. UI ' is the part most difficult and yet effective.


The key is to find a routine that you feel comfortable with - that helps you to get the value tasks higher made each week.


For example, you could perform 2-3 high-value tasks every day and had them before 10: 30. Or you can choose a day to put emphasis on the fact that many tasks of great value as possible on that day.


But the key is to obtain the value tasks higher made first, so that any other you spend your time on any really.


In conclusion, magnitude can be accomplished when we focus on activities that bring the greatest returns, meaning the activities falling under the category of 20%, 80% of the results.


The question we must ask is, "when do we begin to build a great company." If you want to do it now, then now it is time to focus on what is most important - and live a life and build a company that demonstrates.


 

Efficiency - the largest word in Small Business Leadership

What is efficiency? Efficiency is being focused only on tasks that drive an organization to fulfill its mission and achieve its vision.


It has been said that 95% of the decisions taken by the majority of CEOs in fortune 500 companies inAmericacan be made by the average high school senior, but the remaining 5% of decisions that justifies their extraordinary salaries.


What is so valuable on this 5% of the decisions that he is greatly rewarded? It is the ability to make the best decisions at the right time that leads most greatly the Organization to fulfill its mission and achieve the goal of enhancing shareholder value.


What this has to do with small business? Well, likewise, the effectiveness of the leader of a small business is leading the organization forward and gets the company closer to the realization of its vision.


The key to effective decision making lies in manufacturing with due diligence all business decisions in terms of mission of the organization. In other words being more faithful to the mission than anything else.


It is human nature to take decisions based on emotion, despair or a variety of other reasons. Yet the magnitude of the undertaking is reached only with the mission of the organization is the driving force for all decisions which makes the business manager.


The captain of the ship


The business manager is the captain of the ship of the direction for the entire organization to its destination. It takes strength of character and an iron will that will not compromise with less desirable decisions. The captain is not influenced emotionally when having to let go of an employee, management team, or other less desirable but necessary decisions to be taken.


The business manager is not able to take decisions which do not ultimately support mission. When the Business Manager allows him or herself be distracted, it erodes the foundation of the Organization and any opportunity to help the company reach the size of the company.


A pitfall of common Leadership


The most common example that I've seen that diverts the attention of the owners of small businesses - is the decision to transform the personal pocket of the owner of the business organization. It is when decisions are made to provide the owner of the company and members of the family perks who create deficits in the financial base of the company.


Provide to members of the family cars, health benefits, bonus of cash wages excessive down payments on homes, etc., who have absolutely no business purpose - are the usual things that weigh the Organization down and creates obstacles to the accomplishment of the purpose of the organization.


In addition, this preferential treatment comes on the back of the sweat and toil of employees, which leads to the resentment of their leaders and loss of respect for their leadership.


Finally, due to changes in the economy, or other circumstances, there is a crisis, and the owner of the company and the family a lesson lasts.


Conclusion


It is the ability of the Business Manager to maintain the Cape separating any other person and that enables the Organization to achieve greatness. They refuse to be distracted from the mission of the Organization, even if it results in short term sacrifices, conflicts and inconvenience.


Yet, their determination to defend their mission and vision, despite personal needs, will propel the Organization at heights greater and more efficiency and greater levels of magnitude.