- Effective executives are time-oriented.
- Effective executives focus on outward contribution and results rather than effort.
- Effective executives build on strengths— their own strengths, the strengths of their superiors, colleagues, and subordinates; and on the strengths in the situation.
- Effective executives concentrate on the few major areas where superior performance will produce outstanding results.
- Effective executives, finally, make effective decisions. They know that this is, above all, a matter of system— of the right steps in the right sequence.
