Fostering Urgency
In a recent blog post by Michael S. Hyatt, the President & CEO of Thomas Nelson Publishing, he covered the topic of “Creating a Sense of Urgency”. He asserts that large companies have a hard time recognizing the need for change because they become complacent; there isn’t enough at stake until it’s too late. He offers seven suggestions for employees to create the urgency on their own:
- Walk faster—show some hustle.
- Respond faster to emails and voice mails. Don’t allow yourself to become someone else’s excuse for not getting their work done.
- Get to the point quickly and insist that others do the same.
- Keep meetings short and on-point. Always insist on an agenda.
- Eliminate every piece of paperwork that doesn’t facilitate a specific outcome. My motto: “When in doubt, throw it out.”
- Be quick to change tactics. If something is not moving you toward your desired outcome, do something else.
- Do it now!
These suggestions dovetail well into the ideas that David Allen extols to get things done by allowing you to quickly respond to the things that are important.
While I think that Michael Hyatt provides some great suggestions I think it’s important to recognize there is some risk in creating urgency in a vacuum. People first need some clear direction, a strategy, before they create urgency since action without direction is often wasted.
I would add to the list—”Establish goals and priorities” and then move on to creating urgency about the things that are important.
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