The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done (Harperbusiness Essentials)

2. Effective executives focus on outward contribution. They gear their efforts to results rather than to work. They start out with the question, “What results are expected of me?”

The effective executive therefore knows that to manage his time, he first has to know where it actually goes.

1. Effective executives know where their time goes.

5. Effective executives, finally, make effective decisions. They know that this is, above all, a matter of system—of the right steps in the right sequence.