Top Ten Issues …
Here are the top ten issues that business leaders are saying keep them awake at night …
• “the constant pressure to meet and beat my quarterly targets”
• “how to balance my work pressures with the needs of my family and my health?”
• “how can I recruit smarter, more productive people?”
• “I’m losing good people. How can I keep them from leaving?”
• “I need to develop a lot more leaders in our enterprise”
• “to better manage a much more competitive culture”
• “we need to find a more effective communications strategy”
• “our metrics are not up to scratch. How to better analyse sales and KPIs”
• “I worry about whether our security is OK”
• “how to ensure the survival and succession of my business”
Today’s Big Question:
What kept YOU awake last night? (Post your answer below)
February 11th, 2008 at 7:01 am
One only stops thinking conciously when one goes to sleep.
Michael you have a certain aura about you that many famous leaders had.I cannot put it in words but according to the school curriculum system back in the 1950,s.I was considered stupid Like Churchill and Einstein were.I just think it is so marvellous that anyone can be anything they want if they have the right thinking.
January 22nd, 2008 at 1:11 pm
Really, a lot of rubbish that doesn’t need to be worried about
January 22nd, 2008 at 9:15 am
Nothing - I slept easily. My checklist of things completed to date is exceptional! The last most pressing item on that list was to return my son to varsity - this is his second year and he moved into a flat with 4 of his mates. This year is looking up to be a fantastic one - work projects are on target, house renovations beginning March. bring it on!!!
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:29 am
luckily my 11 month old daughter kept me awake. Now that i have her all business matters seem less relevant. after a stressful day all i need to is come home make her laugh and my world takes a different perspective. Business problems take a back seat and can be worried about at work.
January 22nd, 2008 at 8:05 am
Being able to ensure we meet our deadlines and keep our clients satisfied in what we are delivering to them.
January 22nd, 2008 at 6:52 am
Even when I have worries, I tend to sleep well at night. I guess a lot has to do with my meditation practice, which, in the long run, aims to bring me a deep state of well being in spite of what I must face in daily life.
January 22nd, 2008 at 4:06 am
survival and success of my business
January 22nd, 2008 at 1:35 am
what kept me awake was an important but slightly complicated project proposal I was to deliver today. Also the thought of one recalcitrant and ill-motivated employee did bother me.
January 21st, 2008 at 9:28 pm
If I’ve got an important idea in my mind, I want to be sure I take some action on it. I write everything down - the pros and cons - then I go to sleep on it much easier - and wake up in the morning raring to go and improve on the ideas! if i don’t have a good sleep, my day takes on a different turn. I would go to bed at 11 and wake 5:30, i work best in the mornings and i don’t let problems or situation keep me from sleep and resting, thinking and worrying way into the night would only make it worse.
January 21st, 2008 at 7:57 pm
I dont lie awake at night sleeping helps me fix the challenges I face as I only have challenging experiances not problems every experiance is a good one live every day as if it is your last.
January 21st, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Nothing kept me awake last night. Worked from 2.00pm till 1200am, watched some tennis, then, slept until 9.30am. to start another great day.
January 21st, 2008 at 5:46 pm
The need to move our business into a more corporatised mode.
January 21st, 2008 at 2:27 pm
Not a thing. I did a couple of performances of a play I’m in and crashed afterwards, happy about the day’s activities.
January 21st, 2008 at 2:25 pm
I PRAY before sleeping and thankfully get a sound sleep every night!!
January 21st, 2008 at 1:56 pm
• “how to balance my work pressures with the needs of my family and my health?”
January 21st, 2008 at 11:39 am
the death of my daughter and not been advise of funeral arrangements
(it was in a dream I had)
January 21st, 2008 at 10:28 am
I’d like to boast about how excited I was about the future and portray myself as this incredibly motivated individual who can’t sleep because she is so tuned into the possibilities of tomorrow, but then I’m really only fooling myself aren’t I. I mean, none of you even know me. The truth is, I was horny.
Yep, - that’s about it….
January 21st, 2008 at 10:22 am
What might help me focus my attention on finding the ‘what and how’ I’m missing, to start my own enterprise this year?
January 21st, 2008 at 9:01 am
How to attract and retain good people in this low unemployment environment. On a more personal note - the threat of the US recession and how it may affect my employment prospects and asset values.
January 21st, 2008 at 8:40 am
Nothing I slept like a baby
January 21st, 2008 at 8:11 am
last night I slept tight, buggered from a long weekend. Some of the things that keep me awake is my mind wandering and focusing on things that are beyond my control.
January 21st, 2008 at 7:52 am
Cleaning my flat from a big party the night before.
January 21st, 2008 at 1:23 am
how to clone myself so that I can produce more product faster
January 21st, 2008 at 12:43 am
Nothing keeps me awake at night. If I have problem I write it down on a piece of paper and leave it to solve in the morning. However, my most important concern (when I am at work) is how to get people to accept that they need to improve their performance in small steps day after day and every day, and a commitment to that.
January 20th, 2008 at 11:58 pm
Nothing keeps me up at nights, for different reasons, i love sleep, sleep is important so i face the next day, i’m a morning person and if i dont have a good sleep, my day takes on a different turn. I would go to bed at 11 and wake 5:30, i work best in the mornings and i dont let problems or situation keep me from sleep and resting, thinking and worrying way into the night would only make it worse.
January 20th, 2008 at 9:46 pm
I slept soundly last night which I am thankful for…
January 20th, 2008 at 8:51 pm
I slept well last night
January 20th, 2008 at 7:10 pm
Excitement and enthusiasm kept me awake! If I’ve got an important idea on my mind, I want to be sure I take some action on it. So I write everything down - the pros and cons - then I go to sleep on it much easier - and wake up in the morning raring to go and improve on the ideas!
January 20th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Visualizing myself facilitating Training Sessions assisting Hairdressers to move to the next level. However as soon as I ask my unconscious mind to take over, I soon go to sleep.
January 20th, 2008 at 5:47 pm
Recently, it has become apparent that in order to survive, business volume needs to increase dramatically. Survival means new sources of work must be identified together new strategies, etc. Last night I was awake most of the night weighing up everything I could think of and come to the realisation that survival may also mean shutting one door (CVS) so I can clearly focus the BVS. How this is gonna be done? I am sure that’ll be keeping awake tonight.
January 20th, 2008 at 5:05 pm
How can I waken my team to their adaptive leadership challenge and grow their capabilities to meet that challenge.
January 20th, 2008 at 3:52 pm
What kept me awake last night was this idea about cultural diplomacy in international business. Cross cultural exchange with our international partners goes beyond the basic principles of business protocol. In this sense business becomes an emotional and psychological response and understanding more than any idea of just closing the sale or making an end point. On this trip to China (I have been working in Beijing for 4 years) I realised that when you sign an agreement, contract or memorandum of understanding that it actually means the beginning of an understanding, not the understanding in an absolute sense. In Western thinking the idea of singing a contract can be very final and perhaps restrictive in it’s resolve … needless to say im now learning to look left and right as well as up and down in my thinking - who knows how long it will take to look back and front..
Stephen Danzig in Beijing 2008
January 20th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Rising early to make lunches, prepare dinners or merely think and write in silence is more accurate than insomnia.
January 20th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Me!
January 20th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
I slept soundly. But, if you wish to know my prime concern, it is that my productivity is too low.
January 20th, 2008 at 2:27 pm
All these days I have devoted myself fully to company, But personally not improved both either financially or healthwise, what am I doing, where do I land up?
January 20th, 2008 at 1:48 pm
Work stuff doesn’t keep me awake - worrying about the custody suit I have been in for the last 6 years does.
January 19th, 2008 at 3:47 am
Nothing kept me awake last night. I find that I sleep regardless of what is going on around me.
January 18th, 2008 at 7:09 pm
I was thinking (worrying!) about my financial situation, my personal situation (court for access to my daughter) and my career prospects which are in a state of flux, hmmm
January 18th, 2008 at 5:42 pm
Absolutely NOTHING. I consider sleep at least as important as IQ, effort, or title. Therefore I do not like havin it interrupted or disturbed.
January 18th, 2008 at 10:42 am
I couldn’t wait to get up and take a look at what the market did on the overnight and review my trading plan and positions.
January 18th, 2008 at 5:16 am
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