Think your life is complicated? Kevin Roberts, CEO Worldwide of Saatchi & Saatchi, runs a major company, sits on several boards, blogs, speaks, writes and teaches. How does he manage to keep all these balls in the air? Ian Sanders, author of Juggle! Rethink Work, Reclaim Your Life, asks him in this interview and gets advice on organizing your life that explodes the conventional wisdom. “Success is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration?” Nonsense, says Roberts. Management and leadership? They’re over-rated. His advice: when it comes to prioritizing responsibilities, forget focusing on multi-hued email flags and elaborate arrays of post-it notes, and instead strive to get these four things into every workday:
- Responsibility
- Learning
- Recognition
- Joy
That’ll make you happy and people who are happy with their work tend to be good at it. And if you think this advice only applies to continent-hopping executives, Roberts has an answer for you entry-level types about halfway through the video.
