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Get two highlighters, pens, or pencils of different colors (red and green are ideal, but any will do). Print out the last week of your calendar when you were working. Go through each workday hour by hour and ask yourself, “Did that activity give me energy or drain my energy?” Highlight in green those that gave you energy, and highlight in red those that drained your energy. There are no neutrals; every hour must be marked one color or the other. When finished, look for patterns of where and how your energy is drained. Now think of ways to outsource or eliminate those activities.

The Great CEO Within

Matt Mochary, Alex MacCaw, and Misha Talavera

On the other hand, if the position could be a major career breakthrough, it’s certainly worth the time and effort to prepare a highly persuasive resume stressing your most recent…and presumably your greatest…accomplishments. Not only will it help the recruiter understand and communicate what you’ve done, the very act of creating it will prepare you to meet the recruiter and the employer. You’ll be in command of facts-and-figures…not only on what you’re doing now, but on what you’ve done in the past.

Rites of Passage at $100,000 to $1,000,000+

John Lucht

Given the situation, I was actually pretty lucky. Sun Tzu in his classic work The Art of War warns that giving the team a task that it cannot possibly perform is called crippling the army. In my case, I did not cripple the team, but I screwed up my priorities. The right thing to do would have been to make the hard decision up front: what was more important a) maximizing each quarter or b) increasing predictability. The instruction only made sense if the answer was (b).

When Employees Misinterpret Managers | Andreessen Horowitz

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