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THE MANAGEMENT TIP OF THE DAY: Harvard Business Review

April 15, 2015

Set Aside Time for Your Team to Get Real Work Done

As a leader it’s your job to make sure your team doesn’t get burned out. One way to reduce stress and help people focus on what really needs to get done is to schedule uninterrupted work time. When people get distracted, it can take at least 20 minutes to refocus on the task at hand. Encourage people to set aside an hour or more each morning for quiet, proactive work. There should be no interruptions during this time, unless it’s an emergency – this means holding off on meetings and limiting email. By making this a group goal, you increase people’s collective focus and prevent backsliding. You can also help your team break larger projects up into smaller tasks that can be accomplished in the amount of time you’ve set aside for strategic work each day. Once they start using this time effectively, their productivity will improve.

Adapted from “Help Your Overwhelmed, Stressed-Out Team” by Julie Mosow.

THE MANAGEMENT TIP OF THE DAY: Harvard Business Review

April 15, 2015

Set Aside Time for Your Team to Get Real Work Done

As a leader it’s your job to make sure your team doesn’t get burned out. One way to reduce stress and help people focus on what really needs to get done is to schedule uninterrupted work time. When people get distracted, it can take at least 20 minutes to refocus on the task at hand. Encourage people to set aside an hour or more each morning for quiet, proactive work. There should be no interruptions during this time, unless it’s an emergency – this means holding off on meetings and limiting email. By making this a group goal, you increase people’s collective focus and prevent backsliding. You can also help your team break larger projects up into smaller tasks that can be accomplished in the amount of time you’ve set aside for strategic work each day. Once they start using this time effectively, their productivity will improve.

Adapted from “Help Your Overwhelmed, Stressed-Out Team” by Julie Mosow.

“The final forming of a person’s character lies in their own hands.”
—Anne Frank (1929-1945)
Diarist

“A sense of humor… is needed armor. Joy in one’s heart and some laughter on one’s lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life.”

— Hugh Sidey

Gen V K Singh oppose deployment of army to tackle Maoists

Link:- http://m.timesofindia.com/india/Gen-V-K-Singh-opposes-deployment-of-army-to-tackle-Maoists/articleshow/46921289.cms

RAIPUR : Union Minister General V K Singh said he was not in favour of deploying army in any campaign to tackle the Maoists.

“Army has to be deployed only when there is a threat to national security, particularly from any other country,” he said while replying to questions during a discussion based on his autobiography “Courage and Conviction”. The event was organized as part of Chhattisgarh’s first international flim festival, which concluded today.

“If we deploy army in places where problems have cropped up due to socio-political reasons, it could adversely affect the image of the forces”.
Gen Singh said that as a chief of army, he had made this stand clear to the then union home minister P Chidambaram.

Replying to a question about deployment of Indian army for peace- keeping operations in Sri Lanka, General V K Singh, a former chief of army staff, quipped ” The decision to deploy IPKF in island nation was a high-level policy failure”.

Stating that decision to go to Srilanka was not taken at the level of army, the former army chief said in fact the government of India and Srilanka had entered into an agreement while the fight was between Liberation Tigers of Tamil Ealam and Sri Lanka government.

Without naming anyone, General Singh said ” At times, the situation was awkward. We had to fight the very people trained by us”.

During the IPKF operations, the union minister said, the Indian Forces got many opportunities to hunt down LTTE chief Vellupillai Prabhakaran but every time there were instructions to give him a safe passage.

The union minister also claimed that at one point Srilankan president Premadasa sought to help the LTTE rebels to fight IPKF.