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Overcoming active non-action

For the past ten years, the authors have studied the behavior of busy managers, and their findings should frighten you: Fully 90% of managers squander their time in all sorts of ineffective activities.

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Authors

Heike Bruch


Sumantra Ghoshal







Energy and Focus













The Procrastinators: Low Energy, Low Focus







The Disengaged Managers: High Focus, Low Energy







The Distracted Manager: High Energy, Low Focus







The Purposeful Manager: High Focus, High Energy








Short cut
  • Most Managers confuse being active with purposeful action- taking. This ist the syndrome we call “active non-active” which, we believe, is a central behavioural problem in many companies.
  • Action demands energy. Focus, on the other hand, represents the capacity for concentrated attention.
  • Over the past threee years, action-taking in a group of over 120 managers at a very large global company was intensely studied. What follwos:
  • 30% of the managers studied were procrastinators.
  • Roughly 20% of the managers studied fell into the disengaged category.
  • By far the largest group of managers we studied—about 40%— fell into the distracted category.
  • The smallest proprotion of managers studied—only about 10% —were both highly energetic and highly focused.

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