![]() ![]() Purposeful are high focus and high energy. They easily overwhelmed by the unexpected.They feel exhausted, frustrated, and alienated.Others are not able to commit to tasks that don’t hold meaning for them.ĭisengagement is often a result of organizational processes, or dysfunctional relationships with who they report to.ĭisengaged tend to share the following characteristics/behaviors: Some managers are exhausted or lack the ability to reenergize themselves. They fear failure or negative consequencesĭisengaged are high focus, but low energy.They operate in a chronically passive state.They fail to raise the level of performance.Procrastinators tend to share the following characteristics/behaviors: They can sabotage and undermine projects through passive agressive behaviors, or simply by wearing out any momentum. ![]() They feel they have no control over events so they do nothing, even if they appear busy. They might start out energetic and engaged, but over time, become disillusioned or disengaged because of their inability to make impact. Procrastinators are both low energy and low focus. They have difficulty adjusting behavior for new situations and new requirements.They are aggressive in action but not reflective.They overpromise, but often under deliver.They lack strategy (shooting first, aiming later).They have high energy, but lack of focus.They appear as frenzied, desperate, and hasty because of their high energy, but lack of focus.īecause they don’t stop to reflect, they have trouble developing strategies and adjusting their behaviors to new requirements.ĭistractors tend to share the following characteristics/behaviors: Distractors (40% of Managers)ĭistractors are high energy, but low focus. It’s such a simple lens but it helps you see how a lack of focus and energy can diffuse your results. Purposeful – High energy and high focus.Distracters – High energy and low focus.Procrastinators – Low energy and low focus.When you walk the Focus-Energy grid, here are the 4 Focus and Energy Personas that you end up with: The Procrastinators, The Disengaged, The Distractors, and The Purposeful This creates four quadrants that represent the combinations of low and high focus with low and high energy. In this matrix, you have Focus on the vertical side, and Energy on the bottom side. This frenzied activity can, as the authors put it, “act like leeches on managers’ capacities–making unproductive busyness perhaps the most critical behavioral problem in large companies.” The Focus-Energy Matrixīruch and Ghoshal created The Focus-Energy Matrix as a simple way to see what happens They lack focus and waste energy on frenzied activity such as daily routines, superficial behaviors, and poorly prioritized or unfocused tasks. The authors researched companies including GE, Lufthansa, Sony and more, and what they found is that most managers are busy for the sake of being busy. The other 90% waste their time in all sorts of ineffective matters. Only 10% of all managers spend their time in a committed, purposeful, and reflective manner. Heike Bruch and Sumantra Ghoshal, authors of A Bias for Action, conducted a 10 year study of busy managers in large companies. A 10 Year Study Says Most Managers are Busy for the Sake of Being Busy You can also improve your focus and better manage your energy by setting clear goals and breaking tasks into smaller steps.īy adopting these practices and developing a mindful approach to your work, you can become more efficient, effective, and fulfilled in your personal and professional life. You can balance your focus and energy through a combination of prioritizing your tasks, managing distractions, and taking breaks to recharge your energy levels. If you have high energy, but low focus, results may be all over the board. For example, if you have low energy things won’t get done. If you can balance focus and energy, you get better results. Purposeful work is the right combination of high energy and high focus.īy improving our focus and managing our energy effectively, we can increase our productivity and achieve more in less time.īuilding momentum takes a mix of the right kind of energy and focus on a team. “Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.” - Mark Twain ![]()
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