Determine Your
10 Determine Your Key Result Areas
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PERHAPS THE MOSTimportant key to high productivity is
for you to focus and concentrate on the most valuable and
important things you can do, all day long.
Developing absolute clarity about your key result areas is
essential for executive effectiveness and high productivity.
Your key result areas are those things that you have been
hired to do, accomplish, or achieve. They are your top prior-
ities in terms of the value that you contribute to your busi-
ness. These are the tasks that, once accomplished, determine
whether or not you fulfill your responsibilities to your com-
pany and to yourself.
What are the key results that you have been hired to
accomplish? Try asking the question another way: “Why are