{"id":7057,"date":"2020-11-21T10:54:49","date_gmt":"2020-11-21T16:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scottcochrane.com\/?p=7057"},"modified":"2020-11-21T10:54:50","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T16:54:50","slug":"how-to-avoid-the-wreckage-of-distracted-leadership-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/2020\/11\/21\/how-to-avoid-the-wreckage-of-distracted-leadership-3\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Avoid the Wreckage of Distracted Leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Effective leadership requires clarity of thought.<\/span><\/h2>\n

To make the timely decision, to accurately assess a complex situation, or to quickly respond to a team dysfunction, the leader must be fully dialed in and singularly focused on the issue at hand.<\/span><\/h2>\n

Our world today is demanding a stop to the dangerous practice of \u201cdistracted driving\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

When it comes to leadership effectiveness, there should be a similar call to end \u201cdistracted leadership\u201d.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just as driving while distracted drastically diminishes the ability to drive well, so too does distracted leadership prevent you from leading at your best.<\/strong><\/p>\n

But in today\u2019s increasingly distracted culture, that kind of focus is tough to maintain. Never before have leaders been called upon to split their attention in so many directions simultaneously.<\/p>\n

Nonetheless, maintaining a distraction-free leadership environment is critical if you\u2019re going to lead at your very best.<\/p>\n

As a starting place, here are three ways you can immediately improve your ability to be a distraction-free leader:<\/p>\n

1. Slay the \u201cMulti-tasking\u201d Dragon<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Our culture celebrates multi-tasking. It has become a badge of honor to be able to juggle multiple priorities simultaneously. But the math just doesn\u2019t work. Rather than pouring 100% of your focus into a single priority, our world advocates applying 10% of your focus across 10 different priorities.<\/p>\n

And you\u2019ll never be at your leadership best if you apply 10% of your energy towards anything.<\/p>\n

2. Master Your Devices, Don\u2019t Serve Them.<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Nothing will divert your attention quite like your digital devices. When you\u2019re zeroed in on a vital leadership task, but you allow your attention to be sidetracked by your phone, tablet or other device, you\u2019ve just diminished your effectiveness.<\/p>\n

By all means, leverage technology to keep you connected, but stop jumping to attention every time one of your devices beeps, buzzes or rings.<\/p>\n

3. Always, Always, Always Put People Over Projects<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

How many times have you found yourself in conversation with someone, only to have a little voice in your head saying, \u201cI gotta get out of this conversation\u2026I have so many projects to do\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Never allow the rush to your projects take precedence over people.<\/p>\n

To be at your leadership best requires you to be relentlessly focused on the job at hand. So simply resolve that you will commit to being singularly attentive to one priority at a time.<\/p>\n

Because an effective leader is a distraction-free leader.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Effective leadership requires clarity of thought. To make the timely decision, to accurately assess a complex situation, or to quickly respond to a team dysfunction, the leader must be fully dialed in and singularly focused on the issue at hand. Our world today is demanding a stop to the dangerous practice of \u201cdistracted driving\u201d. When…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":7058,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,738,478,1027,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-discipline2","category-effectiveness-2","category-featured","category-habits","category-leadership"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7057"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7057\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7059,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7057\/revisions\/7059"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scottcochrane.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}