08/19/2022, Beverly Hills // PRODIGY: Feature Story //
Every business leader has to manage their time—and every business leader sometimes fails to manage it well. When it comes to business, it’s easy to look back on our experiences and see where we fell short, wasted time, or put our focus on an activity that turned out to be unhelpful.
Adam Torres, author, speaker, and podcaster, has helpfully noted that as tempting as it is to beat ourselves up, the true path to leadership comes from reflecting on lessons learned and making changes accordingly. Business leaders from around the world are choosing that path every day. Read their stories and more in Torres’ newest book, Mission Matters: World’s Leading Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Top Tips to Success (Business Leaders Vol. 6).
Torres is the co-founder of Mission Matters Media, a media and publishing company dedicated to the needs of business owners, entrepreneurs, and executives. An international speaker and the author of multiple bestselling books, Adam’s advice has been featured in major publications such as Forbes, Inc., and Fox Business. Listen to Adam’s popular podcast Mission Matters at MissionMatters.com.
In the introduction, Torres shares his own experiences of auditing his time—and realizing just how much of it he spent on inefficient tasks that took two or three times as long as he thought. What he figured out, though, was that a few small tweaks in his approach to these tasks created major successes in saving time and improving his focus.
But what’s really special about this isn’t that Torres did it himself—it’s that anyone can do it. He writes, “I’m no time management guru. I’m just another former executive turned entrepreneur like many who will pick up this book. I share this to challenge you to figure out ways to improve in your own life.”
Though Torres champions the ability of any business leader to learn from their experiences, he also acknowledges that sometimes…
