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LEADERSHIP FOR RESILIENT ENTREPRENEURS
It’s Paradox: Don’t Be Available for Your Team All the Time
It’s good to be a helpful person for your team. At the same time, precious little gets done when you are distracted by team members asking if you have a minute all the time
Time blocking or not?
Turning off notifications or not?
Be available for every request of your team or not?
As usual in entrepreneurship, there isn’t black or white. But there is always a sensation or a distraction for an entrepreneur to attend to, so you will need to find a way to resist the temptation of all the distractions.
It’s good to be a helpful person, both for the team and for customers. At the same time, precious little gets done when you are distracted all the time by team members asking if you have a minute, customers calling with something that could have waited for the next regular meeting, or random people still doing cold calling marketing.
Here is an analogy. Parkinson’s Law says that administration fills the room you give it: If you allow your day to be eaten by admin tasks, they will fill your whole day. If you only dedicate…
