Your first and foremost job as a leader is to take charge of your own energy and then help to orchestrate the energy of those around you.
It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.
Unless strategy evaluation is performed seriously and systematically, and unless strategists are willing to act on the results, energy will be used up defending yesterday.
Successful people know they need to get many things done-and done effectively. Therefore, they concentrate their time and energy on doing one thing at a time-and on doing first things firs.
