RULE 38
Work hard
The fundamental Rule of Management, I’m afraid, is get the basic job done, get it done well and work bloody hard at it. No good being a fantastic people manager if you let the basic job slip. You may have to get into the office earlier than anyone else, earlier than you’ve ever got there before, but get in early you must.
Once you have cleared your work out of the way you can concentrate on managing your team. Paperwork has to be done efficiently and on time. This isn’t the place to go into lengthy training sessions on time management and the like, but basically you will have to be:
- organized
- dedicated
- ruthlessly efficient
- focused.
No choice, I’m afraid. You have to knuckle down and get on with it. Management isn’t swanning ...
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