The mistake that many people make is in thinking that winning the game today and building a team for tomorrow are two separate activities. Either you respond to the exigencies of the moment or you send your assets offline for maintenance. The truth is that winning today and upgrading the organisation to be a bigger winner tomorrow does not have to be an either /or trade off. Rather it requires a return on time…..

……Leaders with a return on time mindset are always thinking about getting the most out of every minute. Andy Grove was famous at Intel for his fanaticism about starting meetings on time. ” Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a $2000 piece of office equipment,” he says, “you shouldn’t let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.” Leaders with a return-on-time mind-set consciously design processes and structures that simultaneously accomplish more than one goal.

– Noel M Tichy from ‘The Cycle of Leadership’