Leaders, (managers and supervisors) are killing themselves and their direct reports with their lack of organizing skills and lack of understanding how to become more productive and make their team more productive. Leaders need to get to work earlier, go home earlier at night, and not work at home at night. But in order to do that they would have to be able to manage their day more effectively. 90% of all productivity gains occur in the morning. No wonder they can’t get all of their work done. Their mornings are all full of ineffective CYA meetings that should be scheduled in the afternoon. Leaders and teams are taking too long to get anything meaningful done each day. If you can get something powerful done in the first hour, there is no way you can leave work on time (mainly because you couldn’t get all of your work done.) If they do leave on-time its only because they will be working at home later that night. It will become harder and harder to get off to a fast start eack day and easier and easier to work late at night. The productivity cycle will begin to move away from you. There is a reason why 5 Hour Energy drinks have become so popular.

 

There is hope. You can reverse this cycle. Its not overnight. You can also reverse this cycle as a team. I will tell you more on the next post. Until then…