You Need To Agree With Your Boss

No Matter What Your Career Aspirations Are, You Should Begin By Thinking Carefully About Why You Are Engaging In Any Activity And What You Can Expect To Get Out Of It.

The Night Before, Go Over Your Schedule And See What You're Going To Do And What The Purpose Of What You're Doing Is. I Advocate Having A Two-column Schedule. On The Left, Put Down All Your Appointments And Phone Calls. On The Right, Put Down What The Purpose Is.

The Way You Delegate Is That First You Have To Hire People That You Really Have Confidence In. You Won't Truly Let Those People Feel A Sense Of Autonomy If You Don't Have Confidence In Them.

There Are People Who Literally Cannot Start A Project Until The Deadline Is Four Hours Away, Even If It's A Big One. And Those People Have A Serious Problem. My Recommendation Is Set Up Mini-deadlines. You Might Say, 'okay, Here's My Deadline After Three Days For This And There's Another Deadline For That And Then A Third Deadline.

You Have Various Institutions Like Law Firms And Accounting Firms Which Bill By The Hour. I'm Really Against That. You Have An Incentive To Go Slowly, Be There As Long As Possible, To Over-research Things And Over-staff.