Beware of monkeys
A measure of your assertiveness is the extent to which you can both spot and deal with monkeys. Monkeys are other people’s problem that some how end up on your back. Despite being a busy person, it is easy to get sucked into doing things for others. Often requests for your time that is, beware; monkeys frequently arrive by e-mail and have little or nothing to do with your job. What ever the reason, each time you say yes to any request you collect another monkey someone else’s problem. What is more monkeys eat into the time you have got to yourself after meeting demands of your boss and job.
Posted in: on Sunday, February 22, 2009 at at 10:07 AM
