Mark Bowers’ mission is to aid do-gooders in doing more good. Specifically, he helps leaders make a distinctive, sustainable, and measurable social impact. Mark has over 30 years in leadership and management of government, business, and information technology efforts including 20 years as a Navy submarine officer. After leaving the corporate workforce, Mark established Lighthouse One to leverage his passions in strategic planning, coaching, and performance improvement for the benefit of mission-focused organizations. Mark is a volunteer global leader for the International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI). His current “labor of love” is as founder and executive director of the Professional Development Consortium of Hampton Roads which provides free and low-cost leadership education for membership associations.
In this episode Mark and I discuss the misnomer of time management. Listen in as Mark shares some great resources to assist you in managing your priorities. Full Focus Entrepreneur: The Podcast is hosted by Elizabeth Tollis.
Some Note-worthy Times:
0:33 Who is Mark Bowers?
4:25 Marks thoughts on time management
6:00 Thermodynamics
9:30 Timescales
18:25 What CAN we manage?
21:15 Is it all semantics?
23:30 What are we supposed to do?
24:40 Principle Centered Leadership
29:00 How we use PCL in the Emerald Office
29:50 First Things First Portfolio
31:15 Eisenhower Matrix
35:00 Boston Consulting Groups “Stars, Cash Cows, Question Marks, & Stop Signs
42:54 How does Mark focus?
48:30 Marks tech hack for notifications
Some Time-worthy Notes:
As a small business coach and consultant, I have built my business on the idea that entrepreneurship impacts communities and the world. I work with small business owners to increase their impact, build businesses for greater purposes, hone their focus, and sort out what exactly they should be focusing on. With the members in my Full Focus Entrepreneur Program, I dive into a different key area of entrepreneurship each month to bring them EXACTLY and ONLY what they need to succeed in that area. The Podcast is a chance for me to bring in an outside expert on that topic.
If you want to hear, watch, read, and learn more about Entrepreneurship, Focus, and Living a life of impact I invite you to check out Full Focus Entrepreneur where I coach small business owners to be more effective, more organized, more profitable, and more impactful. Sign up for The Full Focus App to receive access to all my free resources.
If you are interested in listening to more of me talking to myself and others please check out The Emerald Office where all the episodes of all of my podcasts can be found.
A special thank you to Eric Tollis who made this sweet backtrack and to Maria Carias for the beautiful art that graces this Podcast. All of Maria's art can be found on her Instagram. She kinda rocks right?