In a Harvard Business Review article titled “Beware the Busy Manager,” researchers Heike Bruch and Sumantra Ghoshal found that only about 10% of managers are actually moving their companies forward.
They refer to this golden 10% as “purposeful managers”. These are the men and women who make the seemingly impossible happen. Purposeful managers share two common characteristics:
Focus – zeroing in on important goals and seeing them through to completion.
Energy – which they describe as vigor, fueled by intense personal commitment.
These two important characteristics must be combined in order to achieve the incredible results purposeful managers are known for. One of these elements without the other isn’t enough.
Focus and energy allow purposeful managers to carefully orchestrate their time.