I think that most people would agree that the people who have goals are more successful than those who do not have any.
I often talk about leadership and management. Leadership is about doing the right things while management is about doing things right. Often when we study time management, we study efficiency (doing things right) and make the assumption that we have the effectiveness (leadership) solved.
"We tend to overestimate what we can accomplish in a day and underestimate what we can accomplish in a year."
This is particularly true in the case of mergers or acquisitions. Recently, a company I founded, EMJ, was acquired by SYNNEX. Prior to that EMJ had acquired 12 other companies. The following is a list of lessons I have learned on how to do a successful merger.
Expert Author: Jim Estill | Category: Blogging It was easier when I was running EMJ, since I had built EMJ slowly over 25 years so people got to know me better as the company grew. At SYNNEX, I have a whole new group of people who wondered about who I was. Blogging was one way to bridge this gap.
One of the easiest ways to increase sales is through networking and one of the best ways to network is to network easily. What I mean by this is to do things that come naturally to you.
My business experience has taught me one true thing: That maximizing your productivity, happiness, peace, or impact can best be accomplished if you clearly understand the 12 Rules of Time.
I am writing this with the din of jackhammers in background. I am working on the weekend (surprising at that might be); feeling sorry for myself that I cannot get good quiet uninterrupted time in like I had planned.
Expert Author: Jim Estill | Category: Blogging One of the challenges of blogging is to come up with good posts that interest readers and keep them coming back. Sometimes I do not feel like I have good original wisdom. It is presumptuous to think I can have top quality original material all the time.
I started my company (EMJ) from the trunk of my car (and it was a small trunk so that's a small business). I grew EMJ to $375,000,000 in sales prior to selling it to SYNNEX. I am now CEO of a $1 billion business.
Expert Author: Jim Estill | Category: Marketing We make our living as guerillas - not the bad kind, but more of a freedom fighter. By using the term 'guerilla' I mean EMJ (now a division of SYNNEX) fights for business against big gorillas (other distributors) in the field.
I study the use of time and how to maximize productivity and enjoyment from it. From these studies, I have come up with the following list of time rules.
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