Tip # 59 And if youre no longer happy on the job
Dont procrastinate about leaving and seeking better opportunities elsewhere, if youre no longer happy on the job. If you and upper management no longer see eye-to-eye on your role in the whole scheme of things, then cut your losses (emotional losses included) and hand in your resignation.
If your salary is your sole means of support, then time your departure in such a way that you have another job waiting for you. Dont let a regular paycheck or stock options or sheer convenience feed your procrastinating habits.
Tip 44 Get to the bottom of things If your boss requests that you investigate an incident, do a thorough job, not a half-baked one.
Worst Procrastinator
Tip # 45 Ah, those back-to-back meetings There must be something about board rooms and conference rooms that make people gravitate towards them.
In Lives Without Balance, Steven Carter and Judith Sokol (Villard Books, 1992) discuss the phenomenon of confirmed bachelors, male and female. One of the worst kinds of procrastination is when you carry resentment from childhood into adolescence and into adulthood. If I learn to like myself, my friends and family would like me better too. It takes an exceptional leader to get everyone to cooperate and share the same vision. Is it the mahogany wood, the jelly croissants that are served every morning, the new projector, the cushy leather chairs? |