On a recent flight back home, my neighbour and I got chatting. He was an experienced, retired CEO who was now passionately spending his time and energy mentoring and guiding others involved with SMEs. He relayed, with some exasperation, how his mentees were bogged down with their 100+ activities on the to-do list along with diminished focus, a sense of overwhelm and incompletion. Going fast just to keep up but in the end not going anywhere fast. We agreed that managers and leaders in SMEs and corporates alike are hugely challenged as we are expected to do more with less, be available 24/7 and respond to communications and issues as they arise.
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