The Choice

"Whatever you focus on grows."

"Winners focus , losers spray."

- Steve Chandler

A new study by Gazelles reinforces what we all know, but most of the time forget or ignore. Plus, some additional information we were not aware of:

"Executives who have four or fewer priorities on their dashboards in a quarter achieve strong results. But when an executive is loaded down with six or more priorities, only two get done well and the other four or five or more are not completed."

 

In other words, there is a tipping point where it is not just one or two Rocks that don't get done, but we are ineffective across the board because of lack of focus. What is more striking is that we are not aware of which ones will not get done. Thus we are better off narrowing the list down up front and following my favorite saying:

Success = Doing the right things, in small amounts,
over a long period of time.

Choose your Rocks well or fate will choose for you.