DO ONE OR TWO THINGS WELL AND AVOID THE REST

"The first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time. The last 10% takes the other 90% of the time."

The really good leader is a specialist. You can't do everything, you can't do everyone's thing. You cant do more than a few things each day anyway. Best to pick up your specialist subject, be really really good at it and leave the rest to other people. I try to do as little as possible. I figure the better a leader,the less you do; its all down to your powers of delegation.

So I stick to what i do best, which is basically talking to other leaders. I don't do sales but i do open door for sales staff to walk through, i don't do key account but i do set up contacts for our key contact people to follow through. I don't do accounts but i do oversee the accounting staff. My ' one or two things' is setting up meetings for my team to do the business, and overseeing the overall style of the work - its branding, its corporate identity, its place in the market.

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I manage a company but i don't do products, i know my limitations, i know what i am good at and what i am bad at. I'm lousy on detail, routine, order, regular everyday stuff. I am good on sudden, unorthodox, interesting, one-off, people oriented projects. I don't see what i am good at as being better, nor do i see things that i am bad at as being inferior. Quite the opposite in fact. I envy the ordered, those who can pay attention to detail, those who like to see project through from beginning to end, those with empty in - trays and tidy desks.

What are you good at? And bad? How would you best describe the one or two things you could do well?