As an entrepreneur or executive, it can often feel like half your day is spent fielding endless requests for your time; and not all of them good.
For example, does this sound familiar?
- Your head of engineering needs feedback on a feature,
- An old colleague wants to hop on a Zoom call to catch up,
- Someone in your network wants an introduction to someone else in your network,
- A candidate that didn’t work out wants to schedule one more call to collect feedback, and
- An aspiring entrepreneur you’ve never met before wants to buy you coffee and “pick your brain.”
And that’s all by 10:00am Monday morning. The week’s just getting started and already it can be easy to feel overwhelmed by the sheer amount of inbound requests.
As a founder or CEO, time is your most valuable — and scarcest — asset. And that’s why learning how to say no at work is one of the most important — and most underutilized — leadership skills.
The fact of the matter is, you can’t say “yes” to every request that comes your way. And until you stop trying to appease everyone, you’ll likely struggle to reach your fullest potential.
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