Achieve more
It is not without reason that Microsoft, for example, has the mission “To empower everyone […] to achieve more.” At Motion10, we have our own 'Circle of Growth'. But if you think about it, a Google or a Netflix (or any other successful company) is also focused on enabling employees and customers to achieve more easily. And because 'swiftly' every company is becoming an IT company, we will all increasingly do this with the help of data and innovative technology.
Mascha Driessen , Head of Search Marketing Western Europe at Microsoft: “The technology enables us to make the right choices based on so much information, to make choices quickly, and to make impactful choices.” But how do you work towards that self-actualization for yourself, colleagues and customers?
As more and more technology becomes self-driving, we can also become more and more self-driving.
Managers need to let go of the wheel. If you believe that the future is self-driving, then people need to figure out for themselves what they want to do. – Vincent Everts , trendwatcher
For 'managers', read management, people, or israel telegram data simply 'we'. The point around the theme of self-management is that technology and other people can and want to take over a lot of things from you. Think of self-driving cars; (vacuum cleaner robot)bots or your colleague or external partner who can do that one nasty job much better and finds it more fun than you. The point is also that you should especially allow this, or even applaud it.
If you no longer have to do more of the activities in which you do not make a difference, that clears the path for self-management. The more control you have over the use and application of your energy, available resources, knowledge and skills, the more you will achieve.
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The pinnacle of this would be to focus as sharply as possible, like a kind of neo-Zen Buddhist samurai, on those activities that you are good at and that contribute to the goals you want to achieve for yourself and for the world.
Find your purpose
Focus, instead of a continuous stream of multitasking and distractions. So: not answering yet another email, implementing that new tool or attending that weekly team meeting again.