Effective Leaders Use Leverage to Achieve More with Less Effort

To lift a heavy object, you have a choice: use leverage or not. You can try to lift the object directly – risking injury – or you can use a lever, such as a jack or a long plank of wood, to transfer some of the weight, and then lift the object that way.

Which approach is wiser? Will you succeed without using leverage? Maybe. But you can lift so much more with leverage, and do it so much more easily!


So what has this got to do with your life and career?


The answer is "a lot". By applying the concept of leverage you can, with a little thought, accomplish very much more than you can without it. Without leverage, you may work very hard, but your rewards are limited by the hours you put in. With leverage, you can break this connection and, in time, achieve very much more.

 Levers of Success

So how can you apply leverage to your job? And how can you achieve much more, while-if you choose to-reducing the number of hours that you work?

To do this, you'll need to learn how to use the leverage of:

•Time (yours and that of other people).
•Resources.
•Knowledge and education.
•Technology.

Prioritization is an essential time lever you need to employ to make the very best use of your own efforts and those of your team.

Prioritzation is particularly important when time is limited and demands are seemingly unlimited. It helps you to allocate your time where it is most-needed and most wisely spent, freeing you and your people up from less important tasks that can be attended to later… or quietly dropped.

With good prioritization (and careful management of deprioritized tasks) you can bring order to chaos, massively reduce stress, and move rapidly towards successful outcomes. Without it, you and your peoplewill flounder around, drowning in competing demands.
 
There are only so many hours in a day that you can work. If you use only your own time, you can achieve only so much. If you leverage your employee's time, you can increase productivity to an extraordinary extent.

To your greater success!

Peter Mclees, Principal

P. S. Smart Development Inc. has an exceptional track record helping restaurants, stores and other businesses create a strong culture, leadership bench strength and the teamwork necessary for growth. Having worked with several companies throughout their growth cycle, we have valuable insights and strategies that would help any late stage startup, small or medium sized company achieve sustained growth and prosperity.

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