What Occupies Your Mind?
Periodically, you may step back from your day-to-day responsibilities to review where you’ve been spending your time. Have you been walking the tightrope and balancing both the tactical and the strategic?
Reading through Small Business Trends, I came across an interesting article by Anita Campbell about a brain map for how small business owners spend their time. The original article in the New York Times took an in-depth look at how HP CEO Mark Hurd looks at his business and allocates his time.
Both articles highlighted the key areas that occupy the mindshare of a CEO. Anita Campbell posed the question whether or not Fortune 500 thinking applies to small to medium sized businesses. Her post has already generated some interesting comments and insights.
Anita put together a conceptual map which I’ve taken from theory and put into a downloadable MindManager template.
As Anita says, maybe this is wishful thinking. Perhaps you’re too busy putting out fires to spend time focused areas of strategic relevance. So, the question stands, what’s on your mind (map)?
About the Author: Michael Deutch is Mindjet’s Chief Evangelist, content contributor for the Mindjet Blog and the Mindjet Connections newsletter. Get more from Michael on Twitter.