The key result areas of management are: Planning, Organizing, Staffing, Delegating, Supervising, Measuring and Reporting. These are the results that a manager must get to succeed in his or her area of responsibility. A weakness in any one of these areas can lead to underachievement and failure as a manager.

The number one reason why some peopleget more work done faster is because they are absolutely clear abouttheir goals and objectives and they don’t deviate from them.

Perhaps the most important word in the world of work is “contribution.” Your rewards, both financial and emotional, will always be in direct proportion to your results, to the value of your contribution. If you want to increase your rewards, you must focus on increasing the value of what you do. You must dedicate yourselfto contributing more results to your company. And there are alwaysthree key tasks that contribute the most.

The hardest part of any important task is getting started on it in the first place. Once you actually begin work on a valuable task, you seem to be naturally motivated to continue.

People with clear, written goals, accomplish far more in a shorter period of time than people without them could ever imagine.