Time Management - The 4 Rules of Monkey Management
Many managers and business leaders unwittingly take responsibility for upward leaping monkeys. These are taken from your staff, often when they approach you with a problem but you don’t have sufficient time to explore and you say something like…. “I can see this is important but I don’t have time to discuss it right now. Let me think about it and get back to you.” These upward leaping monkeys can very soon create sideways leaping and downward leaping monkeys as you procrastinate and put people off.