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The Effective Use Of Limited Resources

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In leadership, you have limited resources.  You have a limited supply of time, capital, and human resources.   Because you have limited resources, it is very important to effectively use your resources.  You should not pursue what you consider a less effective use of time, capital, or human resources.  It is important to identify what is and is not worth your limited resources.

The Effective Use Of Limited Resources

Five Questions To Determine How To Use Limited Resources

Processes develop and change over time.  As a leader, look closely at your organization to identify how to most effectively use your limited resources.  The following five questions will help you identify what needs resources and what does not.

1. What is your core business?  You company probably has a core business.  Identify your core business.  Do you serve people or create widgets?  Then identify which processes support the core business and which ones do not.  If the process does not support the core business, determine if it is worth having.  With limited resources, identify the key processes that support the core business.   [Read more…] about The Effective Use Of Limited Resources

How To Use Leadership Resources Effectively

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From my experience, one leadership challenge many face is learning and understanding their own limitations.  As a first-time leader, you may have the desire to make big changes and do everything you feel a leader should do.  Shortly after you start trying to make every change you envision, you will realize that you can’t do everything all at once. It is because you don’t know how to use your leadership resources effectively.

Leadership Resources

There are many leadership resources available to each leader. Their leadership resources, however, are in the form of human,  natural, or capital resources. To use those resources effectively, you must do the following two things.

Prioritization

Because you can’t do everything right now, you must understand what needs to be done now and what can be done later. You must prioritize effectively. One thing that really helps me to prioritize is writing a to-do list.  The list shows “what” I need to.  From there I use the quadrant system taught by Stephen R. Covey in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People to create my priority list.  I separate out what is important and what is not, versus what is urgent and what is not. [Read more…] about How To Use Leadership Resources Effectively