" Key Relationships - The Leverage to Win!"

Who Matters Most?

Executive Summary: Our lever to success is our key relationships. If you've never considered it, take a look at who you're really working for.

Connected Work

If our work, day in and day out, isn't connected in some meaningful way to those we love and cherish...then we are missing the most significant tool in our efforts to succeed. The key to effective, balanced, successful work is in having a strategy that is based on the values we hold most dear. The ability to follow that strategy then becomes THE key issue in realizing our goals. What we need in order to do this isn't more knowledge, data, or fancy psychology. What we need is leverage. Remember Archimedes...who said that if he had a lever long enough and a place to stand, he could move the entire world? Actually, he was right!

In our daily work, email, meetings, deadlines, calls, to-do lists, bosses, employees, etc. can feel quite literally like the weight of the world... so where is the lever we need to move all this stuff so that our goals really happen? In short, the lever is our key relationships. If you've never considered it, take a look at who you're really working for. If you conclude that you're working for yourself, the boss, or the landlord...you frankly don't have much leverage to achieve. If your work is going to be truly successful, it has to be on behalf of those you care most about. It has to be strategically connected to your key relationships.

Balanced Living

In a future article we'll examine how to begin this process...the process of leaving behind time debt, frustration, and living at the speed of light with your hair on fire...the process of realizing a way of working that is balanced, sustainable, and profitable.

Here's to your success!

Eric J. Beck - Founder

Total Integration Executive Program & Productivity Suite