The Resilent Executive

Work no more than 90 minutes and then take a break!

Do this two more times in a day and you'll accomplish more in 4.5 hours than those cranking hard for 8 to 12 hours straight.

Throw in an occasional Vitamin C IV with glutathiond and some deep breathing exercises and you're good to go for the next decade.

I'm oversimplifying the message from executive performance icon Tony Schwartz, but not by much. As Schwartz exclaims, " energy management, something today's leaders must understand in ( re) - structuring work"

How many of you are exhausted by the demands of your business? And the demands are incresing as technology makes us accesible 24/7, rarely giving us a break, even in the car or over lunch, from the minute -to- minute frind of growing a company. Extreme burn-out and ever disminishing results are the after-effect. So how does an executive get it all done and remain resilient to the pressures that come with building a successful business?

Though better time management can help, the problem with "time" is that it's finite - limited by the same 168 hours per week everyone else has. And as you put in more time your mental capacity tend to diminish, leading to more mistakes, less creativity and even less patience with other people.

We're not computers ... is true, but sometimes we've negative attituted withe ourselves. If we're not computers, why do we work like them - always on, multitasking at high rates of speed?

Instead, Schwartz, who has spent the last twelve years studying human performance, suggest we look to nature ( think oscillation) for clues on how to structure our activities - and to research on how the brain frunctions best.

It starts with energy. Unlimited, it's something you can regularly renew and refuel. And physics tells us that energy is simply the capacity to do work-so if you have more energy you have more capacity. Manage your energy better and you and your team will produce more work, period.

In my next blog, more about Energy management ...

I hope your comments!