To Be a Good Leader, Manage Yourself First

To Be A Good Leader, Manage Yourself FirstWorking for yourself is hard… much, much harder than working for someone else at a job. When we work for someone else as an employee, they tell us what days and hours to work, they define our job and what constitutes success at that job, and they worry about whether there is enough money to pay the bills.  Employees, even senior managers, go to work and do the job that has been defined for them.  Sure there are big, high stress, complicated jobs that many employees do. But at least most of the scheduling, tasks and limits of authority have been defined for them by someone else.

When we are our own boss running our own business we not only have to accomplish the tasks that will bring us financial rewards…

Alan Luce has given us a great posting, detailing some key concepts of how you can ‘keep your head in the game’, get YOUR work done and be a good example to others. Continue reading the rest of Alan’s post by clicking here.

Are you self employed or run your own business? Have you had any particular issues holding you up? How do you prioritise your workload to ensure everything that needs to get done does? Let’s us know in the comment box below.

One thing I’ve found helpful is this book by Brian Tracy, check it out:


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