从埃里克·施密特到丹尼·迈耶:超级成功、超级忙碌的企业家们是如何安排他们的一天的

畅销书作家布莱恩·特雷西表示:“个人效率是区分成功人士和失败者的关键因素。” 那些在各自领域脱颖而出的领导者和企业家深谙如何在更短的时间内达成目标。我们可以从这些成功人士(他们虽然工作极其繁忙)的策略中学习很多,从而更好地安排自己的时间。以下是12条值得尝试的实用建议:
1. 专注于单一目标。许多成功的企业家都有一个共同点,那就是他们能够专注于最重要的事情。谷歌执行董事长埃里克·施密特说:“我始终保持专注。我每天都会重复一遍:‘这就是我们正在做的事情。我们正在做的事情是否与此相符?它能否改变世界?’” Fab.com 首席执行官杰森·戈德堡也提出了这样的建议:“选择一件事,然后把这件事——而且只做这件事——做到比任何人都做得更好。” 专注于最重要的业务事项,我们就能从中获得巨大的力量。这也是区分普通商人和成功商人的关键特质之一。
2. 坚决屏蔽干扰。网球传奇人物玛蒂娜·纳芙拉蒂洛娃曾说过:“我专注于集中注意力。” 对于我们这些缺乏自律能力的人来说,有很多科技产品可以帮助我们屏蔽干扰。例如, Rescue Time是一款在电脑后台运行的应用程序,它可以记录你的时间分配情况,帮助你做出更明智的决策。Get Concentrating是另一款实用工具,它可以通过暂时屏蔽社交媒体网站来帮助你专注于重要任务。(你容易分心吗?如果是,这里还有六款更受欢迎的屏蔽干扰程序。)
3. 严格限制会议时间。雷诺和日产的首席执行官卡洛斯·戈恩对单议题、非运营性会议的时间限制非常严格:他最多只允许一个半小时。其中50%的时间用于汇报,50%的时间用于讨论。前美国陆军上尉、现任职业教育公司首席执行官加里·E·麦卡洛只给人们要求的会议或预约时间的一半。这迫使他们言简意赅、清晰明了、直奔主题。“通过这样做,我可以在一天内完成很多事情,并更高效地安排人员进出,”麦卡洛说。人们通常不需要他们要求的那么多时间。会议就像时间吸血鬼。要毫不留情地控制这种普遍存在的生产力损耗,这样你才能专注于高价值的任务。
4. 建立高效习惯。能源项目(The Energy Project)首席执行官托尼·施瓦茨(Tony Schwartz)提供了四个建立习惯的技巧,这些习惯可以自动化一些行为,从而提高我们的工作效率,同时又不会耗尽我们的精力。其中之一是每天优先完成一项关键任务,并专注于这项任务开启新的一天。“强迫自己分清轻重缓急,这样你就能确保在一天中精力最充沛、干扰最少的时段完成至少一项关键任务,”施瓦茨说道。
5. 早起。研究表明,早晨的状态决定着你一天的成败。成功的CEO们在早上6点前就开始一天的工作并不罕见。在《27位早起的高管》一书中,我们看到了那些极其忙碌的人——从通用电气CEO杰夫·伊梅尔特到百事可乐CEO英德拉·努伊——是如何利用早晨的时间来把握一天的。你可以用“意志力战胜床铺”这句格言来激励自己起床,去追求你的目标。正如劳拉·范德坎姆在《成功人士早餐前都做些什么:重塑你的早晨和人生的简短指南》一书中所说,当许多人还在睡懒觉的时候,成功人士已经起床并高效地完成了许多工作。如果你不喜欢早起,范德坎姆建议从小处着手,比如每天早起15分钟,然后逐渐增加时间。
6. 将干扰归类。这个方法来自餐饮业巨头丹尼·梅耶。他让助理将一天中出现的所有问题归类到一个列表中,这样她就不必在办公时间反复打断他了。你可以借鉴这种做法,看看如何让团队中的其他人也对问题、请求和其他非紧急咨询进行归类,这样你就不会被那些毫无价值的干扰分散注意力了。
7. 将个人琐事外包出去。高效人士会谨慎选择如何分配精力,不会把时间浪费在别人可以做的事情上。例如,Reddit 的创始人Alexis Ohanian就使用Fancy Hands之类的服务,这是一个虚拟助手团队。其他人则通过亚马逊的“订阅省”等网站或送货上门服务来自动购买杂货。甚至还有人使用Plated之类的服务,它可以将精确计量的食材送到家,让你在家就能享用大厨精心设计的菜肴。对你的空闲时间进行成本效益分析,看看是否值得将一些重复性任务外包出去,以便专注于那些能为公司创造价值的事情。
8. 制定邮件规则,保持工作效率。Birchbox的创始人Katia Beauchamp 和 Hayley Barna坚持要求团队成员在所有邮件中注明需要回复的时间。这个简单的技巧有助于确定优先级。设计师Mike Davidson制定了一项邮件策略,限制他发送的每封邮件不超过五句话。正如他解释的那样,他收件箱里的许多邮件,他回复所花费的时间甚至比发件人撰写邮件的时间还要长。分析一下你的邮件使用习惯,并制定适合你实际情况的省时策略。
9. 记录所有创意。世界著名科学家莱纳斯·鲍林博士曾说过:“获得好点子的最佳途径就是拥有大量的想法。”大多数领导者和企业家都是富有远见的,他们通常不乏好点子;然而,对于忙碌的人来说,记录所有这些想法往往是一项挑战。Evernote 是一款流行的免费创意收集程序。(这里列出了一些其他可供参考的工具。)
10. 利用科技提升效率。有很多程序可以帮助小型企业主提高生产力。一些常用的工具(其中一些是免费的)包括: Dropbox(用于在线存储文件); Any Meeting (用于举办网络研讨会); Basecamp (用于项目管理); Trello(用于跟踪项目和截止日期);以及Hootsuite或Buffer (用于安排社交媒体发布)。
11. 别错过重要信息:稍后再读。不要因为匆忙而错过重要信息。有两个程序可以帮你保存信息以便稍后阅读。Get Pocket可以将文章、视频和其他任何信息保存到一个虚拟口袋中,直接从任何网站保存。另一个值得推荐的程序是Instapaper ,它可以让你保存较长的网页,以便稍后有时间阅读。
12. 向他人学习。不妨订阅 Lifehacker 的“我的工作方式”系列,该系列邀请成功人士分享他们最有效的省时技巧。例如,ModCloth 的创始人 Eric Koger 分享了他最“极客”的省时方法:他使用的是Colemak键盘布局。学习 Colemak 只需一次投资,就能显著提升打字速度。该网站提供了大量关于超级忙碌的成功企业家如何节省时间的建议。
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My productivity has been improved ever since I followed your tips about productivity. I've been using a productivity app called Connecteam to manage my productivity and I have been quite productive both at my work and at my work.
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All the busy ones out there looking to have some time saving tips which works wonders for freeing up your schedule, firstly make time for what you think is important. Get stuffs on right
time, spread the task, mix up small little tasks group to do them at once, learn to say NO. Prep your next day the night before, if possible, plan your weekly menu. Lastly, limit your workday to focus on the window you have for the family.
In a practical sense if we see then being busy is a term mostly used by people, but literally the term is not practical if taken care specifically by strong dedication. We say that we are busy only because we are not concerned about the proper time management and we run out of time. The case comes only with the improper management of the time. I believe that at every stage of life hard work never shows the result in a short period of time than what a smart work shows. And the one term which relates to the smart work to move up is the proper time management. When ever the time management is done up in a manual approach the chances of clumsiness and hassles comes into action whether a tool that could manage the time in a strategic manner gives importance. I have worked for an organization where in the time management is being done up with the usage of the hours tracker from Replicon ( goo.gl/tPVBPU ). The hassle free tool works compatibly with the android and iOS devices to streamline the process and manage the approach to better end result. i would like this tool as well to be considered.
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What is the aim or purpose of your life? Articles such as these that promote "success" and "productivity" seldom ask that question in earnest. Oh, sure, they tell you to have a "single purpose focus," but the don't encourage you to evaluate it in terms of its real value--only that you can be better at it than anyone else and build ego in the world. Yet, the question of your aim must first be clearly asked and answered and evaluated before advice such as that given in this article can be considered. On your deathbed, how important will this purpose have been? Will it have been important enough to treat other people like objects of your intention so that you have no deep, lasting relationships? This article gives distinctly Western advice about how to beat the world into ones own idea of perfection and how to leave ones stain on the planet, bigger than anyone else's. It is disrespectful to fellow humans. Clearly, if one has customers that one seeks to force into one's own "single purpose focus," they can go elsewhere; the focuser would probably never notice because he/she is so clearly focused. No one else's objectives are more important than one's own. People are moved in and out of one's life for their usefulness. Who are these peons to whom one delegates? And the idea of getting up earlier--perhaps it is productive in the short term, but unless you are still getting eight hours of good sleep a night you are gaining productivity at the expense of your own good health. I wonder the quality of the relationships of these "productive" people; I wonder how much joy they have ever inspired in others; I wonder how much of the beauty of life they have ever experienced. Have they ever experienced the joy of a deep breath of rain soaked air? I cannot imagine the Dalai Lama or Thich Nhat Hahn giving such advice as this, and yet they have both improved the lives of others immeasurably.
[Hide Full Comment]I don't find this advice particularly good. As I've woken up, I've discovered that it is far more important to be present to each moment and to take the time to engage in and enjoy the simplest activities in life, like going grocery shopping with my family. This practice has brought happiness to both myself and those around me. As a result, I've found that I am naturally more effective as a human being. In the past, I was constantly driven to achieve, be more productive and efficient, all needs that are born from ego and the delusion that we are separate.
I am disappointed that all this advice is driven by high tech ... more programs and devices to make us more 'productive' but less human.