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    Open the Present: Guru Leadership Series
    Open the Present: Guru Leadership Series
    Open the Present: Guru Leadership Series
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    Open the Present: Guru Leadership Series

    By J.H. Dies

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    What if you could clone your top performers? How do you get 1.5x to 2x performance from your best and brightest? Ironically, many of the habits that make your employees top performers, also lead to poor time management. The Guru Leadership Series presents the remarkable findings of a comprehensive study designed to discover what science, and the world's most best time managers have to say about maximizing your time. Through academic review, and intense study of the world's top 1% including: Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Tim Cook, Elon Musk, Oprah Winfrey, Ray Dalio, and Howard Schultz and many more, you will learn how to teach your people how to maximize their investment in the most precious resource. In this book, you'll learn: How to slay the technology dragon, secrets of prioritization to get the most out of the day, techniques to allow leaders how to teach and enforce good time management habits, and much more!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJ.H. Dies
    Release dateFeb 10, 2017
    ISBN9781540690715
    Open the Present: Guru Leadership Series
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    J.H. Dies

    J.H.Dies is a best selling author with years of experience in event planning and private hospitality. He has written ten books featuring all of the key tools and details he and his wife use to make their businesses successful. These are not lofty pieces of theoretical advice. Each of these books contain the specific agreements, planning information, checklists, interview and preparation notes, and marketing guidance that have proven successful for years.

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      Book preview

      Open the Present - J.H. Dies

      The Guru Leadership Series

      Welcome to The Guru Leadership Series

      For great free content and additional information, email us at ask@whatthegurusays.com. 

      Or

      Join us on Facebook at What The Guru Says

      At the end of the book, we have added some great tools to help you and your business, and to assist in teaching these concepts.

      J. H. Dies retains the exclusive rights to any use and application or adaptation of this book

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      Opening the Present:  How to Teach Your People the Time Management Secrets of the Top 1% Most Productive People in the World.  Copyright© 2016 by J. H. Dies All rights reserved.  Printed in the United States of America.  No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. 

      FIRST EDITION

      ISBN-10: 1540690717

      Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication data has been applied for

      The Guru Mission

      Our Mission is to improve businesses and their people with simple, actionable ideas.

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      This book contains some great extras.  If you would like electronic copies of these materials in editable form, send us an email with Guru TM in the subject line to ask@whatthegurusays.com

      This Guru Book

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      This book is intended to be read in an hour or so, and then revisited as a reference tool as needed.  There are a number of useful tools in the back of the book which may be employed as you see fit.  You will note that there are many different examples from different industries.  These are designed to provide clarity but the solutions offered have broad application to many different business types.

      One of the reasons time management is such a challenge for leaders is that causes of poor time management can be widely varied, but the symptoms are the same. 

      Your employee’s production is off relative to the talent you have scouted in making the decision to hire him.  Is he a poor project manager?  Does she prioritize incorrectly? Is he a perfectionist who is getting poor return on his time investment?  Perhaps she underestimates the time it takes to complete tasks?  Does he understand delegating?

      The reality is that you or your employee could have any or all of these problems.  This book is designed to simplify how you think about time, but it is not intended to be a statistical analysis of employee time consumption.

      Read it with a mind toward issue spotting, and use guru techniques to get more out of your employees, which will improve your profitability, and your employee’s income potential.  Enjoy!

      Table of Contents

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      The Why – Creating Clarity ......................................1

      The How Part 1 – Isolating What Matters ........................7

      The How Part 2 – Watching Time Like It’s Money............13

      Slaying Most of the Technology Dragon .......................18

      Embracing What’s Left of the Dragon..........................23

      The Gardener Who Changed the World........................28

      Why Top Performers Don’t Delegate and How to Fix it ....34

      The Waiter’s Secret to Telephone Time Management........38

      Sharpening The Ax ...............................................41

      The Quiet Danger of Superfluous Choices......................46

      Chapter 1  The Why

      "You can’t depend on your eyes when your

      imagination is out of focus."  -Mark Twain

      You know how important time is, so we won’t waste it on clichés, assuming instead that you know that, or you wouldn’t have purchased this book.  You may have even realized the irony of massively long, convoluted books on time management.  What you may not know is that one of the greatest reasons for poor time management in your organization could be you, the leader.

      THE PROBLEM

      Simply put, your employees may not

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