The six laws of time management

Time is money, efficiency is life; the concept has long been y rooted in people's hearts, and for business managers, good time management, improve management efficiency not only means to improve the internal economic interests, but also to strengthen the external competitive strength of enterprises. Practice has shown that, whether it is business or institutions, the following six methods will help you to improve management efficiency:

1, Dictator method

Dictator (Dictator) of the English meaning, here can be extended to; dedicated time;. Long manipulated the world economy of the Jews used to go to work after an hour, designated as; Dictator time;, during this time, must be yesterday off to work today between the letters received between, fax, E-mail, etc. all the responses, with the computer to type and send, or with the phone to reply. It is ;Diktat time; a phrase that among Jews means by implication ;decline to meet;. The reason why Jews focus on ;Diktat time; is that in the fierce business wars, they use ;solve it now; as the motto of their work. In the ability to excel in the desk of the Jews, can not see; pending documents;. Our managers may wish to learn from this Jewish approach to time.

2, two-eight split

American money in the pocket of the Jews;. Why? Their way of survival and development, is to always adhere to the Jewish business; the law of two or eight 80% of the revenue from 20% of the customers;. The energy should be used in the most effective place, the so-called; good steel on the knife edge;. American entrepreneur William Moore in the sale of paint for the Glidden company, the first month only earned 160 dollars. After that, he carefully studied the Jewish business; the law of two or eight;, analyzed his own sales charts, found that 80% of his revenue does come from 20% of the customers, but he used to spend the same amount of time on all the customers which is the main reason for his past failure. So he asked that his 36 least active customers be reassigned to other salespeople while he himself focused on his most promising customers. Soon he was making $1,000 a month. Muir learned the Jewish law of the two-eighths split in business and never gave up on this rule for nine years, which eventually led him to become chairman of the Kelly Muir Paint Company.

3, limit the phone method

Although the phone in the management of the work more and more to show its important role, but as a double-edged sword, she is a waste of managers time is a major reason, because the phone can be interrupted by the hands of the work and ideas, not good enough; Boiler phone porridge; phenomenon. With an hour to concentrate on business, than to spend two hours and was interrupted 10 minutes, 20 minutes of efficiency. So what are some ways to prevent phone interruptions? One is to analyze the phone calls to you to determine what approach to take to reduce those who simply do not have to call; two is to use the appropriate return method; three is the first to answer the phone with a sincere tone of voice, to avoid small talk; four is to let others know what time you can call to find you.

4, authorization borrowing time method

Authorization borrowing time, refers to the managers according to the principle of function, granting subordinates a certain amount of power, entrusted to a certain degree of authority, autonomy to deal with the work, take the initiative to complete the task, so as to free themselves from the pile of affairs, focusing on considering the more important things to solve the more urgent problems. In the authorization, to implement the following principles: First, depending on the principle of authorization, can not be authorized to the incompetent and only know the blind obedience . Honest people;; Second, the principle of using people without doubt, the leader should do not doubt that people do not use; Third, the principle of routine norms, leadership can be divided into routine, normative principle of work and exceptions, non-normative work, authorized to deal with a wide range of the former and a large amount; Fourth, the principle of authorization level by level, authorization is bound to disrupt the normal order of work, not only can not save time, but also to this end to produce The first is the principle of authorization at all levels.

5, time isolation method

This method may wish to be inspired by the following two characters in the practice:

Einstein knew the essence of time isolation method, he completed in 1906 after the Special Theory of Relativity, after 10 years of brewing and preparation for a certain day in 1916, told the family that Do not disturb him in any way. He didn't leave the house for 16 days in a row, and when he stepped out, he was holding a few pieces of manuscript paper filled with mathematical formulas, the ;General Theory of Relativity; that changed mankind's entire conception of the universe.

Efficiency expert Drucker, in his book The Effective Manager, referred to the head of a bank who maintained a 90-minute quarantine during his working day. He said: ;I gave strict orders to my secretary not to put any calls through to me, except to my insiders in the United States, without recognizing anything important. Although this may be a little risky, need (Continued on page 1 of the letter to the online content) courage, maybe there really is a heavenly can't wait for 90 minutes of things;. But this method has greatly improved the utilization of his time.

6, the meeting time-saving method

In order to save time at the meeting, the measures to be taken and effective methods are:

prepared before the meeting, do not open the purposeless, meaningless, or unclear subject of the confusion will be;

Contact the practical, problem-solving, do not open the sounding board type of meeting;

weighing Priorities, seize the key, do not open tug-of-war;

play a democratic, brainstorming, do not open a parental package meeting;

pragmatic, not open a report, two supplementary, three emphasized that the four positions, five summary of the eight shares of the meeting;

do not open the meeting at seven hours, eight hours to the nine leaders to make a report on the lateness of the meeting;

do not open the subject of the unrelated people sitting with the meeting

Not to open the name of the meeting, in fact, for the tour of the tourism industry.

In short, to do can be opened but not open the meeting is not open, can open a short meeting is not open a long meeting, can open a small meeting is not open to the General Assembly, can be merged to open the opening of the opening of the opening of the opening is not alone, can stand open the opening of the opening of the opening of the opening of the opening of the opening of the opening of the opening of the opening of the opening of the opening.