Reflect and act on these Questions this week

First read through Part 1- 6 about how to Lead using your most precious asset.

I present you with the following questions and exercises to reflect over, as seeds for your own exploration and development.

1. What single activity within your professional—or private—life would, if it were done regularly, be of crucial importance for your desired results and your wellbeing?

2. How can you use more of your time for this activity?

3. Write down three other activities that also would mean very much to your development.

4. Find a key person/a mentor you have great confidence in. This could be a friend, your spouse or a relative, that you trust and feel open with – so that you can discuss these issues in order to come to your unique solution.

This will support you in your development and help you keep focused!

Part 6

Do you know how many minutes there are in one week? A mere 10,080 minutes—that’s 168 hours. This is your wealth in time. What you use it for is up to you. But whatever you use it for, you’ll never have more than these 168 hours each week. What you do with your time decides what you will achieve in your life.

Our daily action follows a certain routine. For each and every one of us, it is important to regularly review how we want to develop this routine. We ensure there’s time for planning and follow-up.

Focus on one week at a time with a view toward your overall objectives. Then focus on each individual “today”: How you carry it out, how you develop, how you follow-up, how you let go, how you prepare yourself for the next day, how you relax, etc.

By taking the time to consider the course of the day’s activities, you can meet each moment with calm, peace and confidence, prepared to respond to whatever arises rather than merely reacting to situations that come up.

To summarize this week

To become a wiser leader:
• Invest your time in the best possible way as time never can be called back once it is gone.
• Focus on the small number of activities that contribute the greatest value to your life and your work.
• Learn to say NO to the various demands by having a strong anchored YES within you to guide you to what is of long-term importance.
• Focus your time and energy to the most important activities each day and ask yourself this question: “Is what I’m doing right now leading me to my most important goals in life”?
• Involve your team in the planning process.
• Invest time to support and help your employees develop and grow.
• Evaluate with regular intervals your progress by yourself and together with your group.
• Invest time to regularly “sharpen the blade of the axe” renewing and exercising your physical, social, mental, and spiritual dimensions!
• Begin your day in the best possible way by taking control of how you start the day and create a picture of this specific day.
• Act because only action makes dreams come true.

About “The Key Leadership Principles”

This weeks Key Leadership Principle is “Lead using your most precious asset”.

I will write one thought for every day during this week and then give you the opportunity to reflect on some important questions on how to Lead using your most precious asset the following week.

This is the format I will use to inspire your learning, releasing your talent and potential. My hope is that you will come along with your thoughts along the way.

I wish you the best in your life and leadership,

Per Winblad

Part 5

Wise leaders know that they must never get so busy to chop wood so they don’t take time to sharpen the blade of the axe.

Figuratively, “sharpen the blade of the ax” means that we constantly renew, exercise and develop all dimensions of our human nature – the physical, social, mental and spiritual dimensions- regularly and consistently in wise and balanced ways.

The physical dimension contains such things as exercise, eating habits, and how we deal with pressure and stress.

The social/emotional element is how we develop our relations with people in our environment.

The mental dimension includes intellectual vigor: to read books, visualize, and plan.

The spiritual dimension is about our core, our set of values and how we live up to our faith and our belief.

Wise leaders know that no single hour of our day will return as much as the hour they invest in exercising these four human dimensions.

We must never get so busy to chop wood so we don’t take time to sharpen the blade of the axe.

About “The Key Leadership Principles”

This weeks Key Leadership Principle is “Lead using your most precious asset”.
I will write one thought for every day during this week and then give you the opportunity to reflect on some important questions on how to Lead using your most precious asset the following week.

This is the format I will use to inspire your learning, releasing your talent and potential. My hope is that you will come along with your thoughts along the way.

I wish you the best in your life and leadership,

Per Winblad

Part 4

Wise leaders seek to work properly exerting power over their to-do list and focusing on what is actually important.

They realize that all may not be as essential and therefore may be postponed, delegated, or simply be elected away.

They slow down and concentrate on doing the most important thing. There feeling is that they have all the time they need through making wise priorities.

Wise leaders plan their time in the knowledge to have balance within life’s all-important areas.

There are very few people who say: “My only regret in life is that I didn’t spend more time at the office!”

Naturally, no one can keep the balance entirely all the time, but it is an approach we can strive for.

By creating the right balance in our needs and interest for work, family, relations, and recreation, we open our minds.

We have more energy and become more constructive and positive as leaders.

About “The Key Leadership Principles”

This weeks Key Leadership Principle is “Lead using your most precious asset”.
I will write one thought for every day during this week and then give you the opportunity to reflect on some important questions on how to Lead using your most precious asset the following week.

This is the format I will use to inspire your learning, releasing your talent and potential. My hope is that you will come along with your thoughts along the way.

I wish you the best in your life and leadership,

Per Winblad

Part 3

Wise leaders allocate regular time for planning for themselves and their co-workers.

They plan for both short-term and long-term. A sensible reflection backward creates clarity in what the task demands in work and time.

By means of a long-term perspective forward, it will be possible to be proactive in order to make the right choices for a successful effort.

The way to make things happen is to plan for them to happen.

Solomon also says: “It is pleasant to see plans develop.”

Wise leaders also evaluate with regular intervals their progress by themselves and together with their group. Evaluation is both the last and the first step to learn and develop.

We are assessing and learning, setting new objectives and planning how we will reach them and act purposefully.

About “The Key Leadership Principles”

This weeks Key Leadership Principle is “Lead using your most precious asset”.
I will write one thought for every day during this week and then give you the opportunity to reflect on some important questions on how to Lead using your most precious asset the following week.

This is the format I will use to inspire your learning, releasing your talent and potential. My hope is that you will come along with your thoughts along the way.

I wish you the best in your life and leadership,

Per Winblad

Part 2

Wise leaders concentrate their time and energy to the 20% of activities that provides 80% of the outcome.

The main difficulty with prioritizing and making the most important first can be likened to the contrast between the clock and a compass.

The clock stands for meetings, the activities and commitments, what we do, and how we spend our time.

The compass is of direction, vision, values, principles, what is important for our leadership of ourselves and others.

Wise leaders also support their co-workers to constructively deal with time. The leader who makes their co-workers’ priorities to be consistent with the group’s most important choices will effective lead the work forward.

The leader is important for the co-worker as a sounding board on how they can be sure to use their time in the best possible way.

Wise leaders know how to invest their time to support and help their employees develop and grow.

About “The Key Leadership Principles”

This weeks Key Leadership Principle is “Lead using your most precious asset”.
I will write one thought for every day during this week and then give you the opportunity to reflect on some important questions on how to Lead using your most precious asset the following week.

This is the format I will use to inspire your learning, releasing your talent and potential. My hope is that you will come along with your thoughts along the way.

I wish you the best in your life and leadership,

Per Winblad

Part 1

Wise leaders know that time is their most precious asset. When seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years pass over they are lost forever.

Time can never be called back or be used again once it has passed. A lost today cannot be recycled and another will not replace it.

Time is fair. If we were to be the richest man on earth, we would not be able to buy more time than any other person.

Wise leaders use their time with great care and they make time to work on their priorities, including what is most important to them.

We learn gradually to say “NO” to the various demands when we have a sufficiently anchored “YES” within ourselves to guide us to what is of long-term importance.

When it comes to time, we invest it wisely.

About “The Key Leadership Principles”

This weeks Key Leadership Principle is “Lead using your most precious asset”.
I will write one thought for every day during this week and then give you the opportunity to reflect on some important questions on how to Lead using your most precious asset the following week.

This is the format I will use to inspire your learning, releasing your talent and potential. My hope is that you will come along with your thoughts along the way.

I wish you the best in your life and leadership,

Per Winblad