Managing using "Manageable" Blocks of Time for Success

Time. It seems like so many folks have or have had opinions on what are the best ways for us to go through each day, or order to be more productive, more balanced and or a more effective leader.

From The 4 Hour work Week, to the The One-Minute Manager and a number of others.

Working through your time into manageable blocks that can be impactful for yourself or your organization can help

Denis Shackel suggests in a book titled the same . . . that Leaders can make the Impossible, Possible by working through challenges Five Seconds at a Time

In an overview of the book:

When a tragic mountain-climbing accident left business professor Denis Shackel stranded on Mount Ruapehu in New Zealand, he turned to the leaderships principles that he'd been teaching for years to survive the longest night of his life.

Alone, with temperatures plunging to -30 degrees Celsius, Shackel first broke the night into five thousand five-second intervals. He decided to deal with only one interval at a time -- a strategy based on his knowledge that effective leaders break big challenges into smaller, more manageable ones. Then, stepping back to see the bigger picture, he relied on vision, intuition, and faith to keep him alive. Shackel emerged from this harrowing experience having cemented his belief that the principles fundamental to leadership are also key to tackling any challenge.

Are you setting aside a whole day for a specific task?

Or into intervals that are more manageable?

There are a number of other great points in his book including:

** Treating delays as "found" time.

** Establishing Trust with and Delegating to others

** Understanding your Strengths, concentrating on them and outsourcing / delegating others.

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