#232: Don’t waste my time

Every week tells of another CEO failure and another corporate disaster. Every day more people say ‘I lost my job’; ‘I lost my money’.

To date the American-dream response has been ‘find another job’; ‘make more money’.

But I’m beginning to hear a different refrain: ‘I wasted a part of my life’. What should you do about that? Reincarnate?

I have seen people so angry that their time has been wasted at work that nothing can sweeten the bitterness with which they remember those they hold responsible for a loss they cannot recover.

This is a growing problem, one that will ultimately affect your organization, because sooner or later, you will inherit one of these angry people.

In my third decade of working with CEOs I know this much: a good CEO does not waste your time; a bad CEO does not even notice when time is being wasted.

I wonder, what sort are you?



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