Great Ceos Are Lazy: How Exceptional Ceos Do More in Less Time

The truth is that great and lazy CEOs know a secret with regards to time management. Reasonably than spending a little time on a large number of things, the best CEOs spend most of their time eliminating the single biggest constraint to the growth of their business. They spend a large number of time diagnosing this constraint before taking action. This process is similar to searching for the kink in a garden hose so you’ll be able to get the drift going again. These is no use trying to unkink the hose until you find the actual problem.

Depending on the nature of the constraint, they engage in fixing the kink in the hose the use of one of five different roles the Learner, Architect, Coach, Engineer or Player that together form the archetype for great leadership. These are all high leverage roles that create a permanent improvement in the business. This insight isn’t just some theory either; it s derived directly from working with thousands of CEOs running high growth companies. The trick to being great and lazy is to only work at the point of constraint and avoid all work that doesn’t increase organizational capacity. Lazy CEOs have a series of well developed tools to properly avoid this non-value work.

I choose a lazy person to do a hard job. Because a lazy person will find an easy way to do it. -Bill Gates.

So, do you need to keep working hard? Or would you Reasonably get busy being lazy?