Every week I share a thought with my team and today I am sharing this weeks thought with you.
As a CEO the demands on my time can be relentless.
I am sure that with the volume of work on your desk, it is easy to fall into ‘the hurrier you go, the behinder you get’.
The thing I am focusing on at the moment is Thinking Time– setting a period of time aside each week to work on my job not in my job.
This is an old idea but it properly describes what I am talking about:
Imagine you are going for a walk in the forest when you come upon a man sawing down a tree.
“What are you doing?” you ask. “I’m sawing down a tree,” he says.
“How long have you been at it?” You ask.
“Two or three hours so far,” he says, sweat dripping from his chin.
“Your saw looks dull,” you say. “Why don’t you take a break and sharpen it?”
“Can’t. I’m too busy sawing,” is his reply.
As an outsider, we can see that the process of cutting is dulling the blade, and the duller the blade, the greater the effort that is required to keep sawing.
The solution is for the woodcutter to stop periodically to sharpen the saw, but because he is was engrossed in the situation he couldn’t see the need to take a break and do what was necessary to make his job easier.
Make sure you take the time to work on your job as well as in it.
Lee Bignell
CEO Mobius Group
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