I was recently working with a leader who had just lost a much-valued employee to a competitor. He had invested a large amount of time in mentoring and training the person and had high hopes and expectations for his career. The employee was someone clearly identified as “top talent” within the company — and what’s more, the resignation came as a complete surprise. The team leader was feeling let down and annoyed.

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1. Do your to-do list in the order of importance, not when it was written. “I always have a to-do list of 20 things. However, more than 50 percent of the things on my list never get done. All the time more important things will pop up and my time is better spent dealing with that thing than anything else on the list. I felt guilty in the past that

You Can Achieve More With Less by Pursuing The Vital Few Instead of The Trivial Many
Your most important tasks guarantee better and faster results Many of us work in an endless stream of tasks, emails, notifications, meetings, multitasking in the process, never pausing and never-ending. Pursuing more and more every day. Left unchecked, our to-do lists can get overwhelming. You can only make the most of limited resources like time and energy if you deliberately pursue few things you can do better instead of trying