Editor's note: Facing the company's recent work efficiency issues, Chairman Yuan Weijinte held a management meeting on May 19, 2012. At the meeting, Chairman Yuan Weijin pointed out: In normal work, some of our management cadres have confused thoughts and cannot distinguish and handle some important tasks at hand. Here, I hope that the company's management cadres can distinguish the priority of the work at hand, so as to handle all management tasks in a timely and orderly manner.

　　When managers always face problems like this, do you have to deal with these problems? If so, which problem should you solve first? There is a principle here-only handle one thing at a time! Why?

　　Emergency issues are not the same as important issues. The issues must be dealt with so that they do not recur in the future.

　　Many people have this experience: We are doing something with all our attention. Suddenly the phone rings, someone asks for help, our subordinates need us to help solve the problem, and the company suddenly has new arrangements.……So, We have to be forced to interrupt the work in progress. After tossing for a few rounds like this, it is very likely that you will not be able to finish one thing, and you may even forget what you are doing just now because you are constantly being interrupted, or the thoughts you just sorted out are interrupted and cannot continue. Think deeply.

　　The biggest enemy of thinking is chaos. Therefore, we should not disperse our energy on too many things, as that will only reduce the efficiency of our work and increase our worries. Because there is too much information in the mind, it will hinder thinking, just like a computer full of processing commands will cause it to run slowly or even crash. Therefore, to get rid of the clutter of trivial matters, you need to eliminate all distracting and stress-generating thoughts, focus your attention on your main focus, and let your thinking fully enter the current situation. Working status. Let us be inspired by a story published below.

　　Bethlehem Steel Company CEO Charles • Shuwap once turned to efficiency expert Avery to improve the company's performance. Avery said he can help Shuwap to manage the steel company better. Shuwap said that he knows how to manage, but in fact the company's performance is not satisfactory. What he needs is not more knowledge, but more action. He told Avery: "What should be done, I myself know very well." If you can tell us how to better implement these plans, I can listen to you, and the price within a reasonable range is up to you. ”

　　Avery said that he could give Shuwap something within 10 minutes, which would increase his company's performance by at least 50%. Then he handed Shuwap a blank piece of paper and said: "Write down the 6 most important things you will do tomorrow on this piece of paper. "Go on to say:" Now use numbers to indicate the order of importance of each matter to you and the company. "This took about 5 minutes. Avery went on to say: "Now put this paper in your pocket. The first thing tomorrow morning is to take out this note and deal with the first item. Don't look at the others, just look at the first item. Start doing the first thing until it's done. Then use the same method to treat the second and third items…… until you get off work. It doesn't matter if you only finish five things. Because you are always doing the most important thing. ”

　　 Therefore, in real work, we really need to learn to focus on only one job at a time and only deal with one thing at a time. This will help us to spend our time first on the most important and productive work.