This is Steve or Robbins.

Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

There are only three roles that you can play in life.

Superhero, super villain, and Minion.

And for some reason that I don't completely understand, minions always seem to work for the

villain.

You never hear about the hero's minions.

We like to believe that we're the hero or the

villain, but actually most of us are minions. And as minions, we're the ones who get ordered

around a lot. To be an effective minion, and to survive long enough to become a true villain,

requires perfecting the art of being delegated to.

Earlier in my career, when I was just a minion, my boss came in and he gave me a scathing look. I didn't take it personally. Evil villains have to practice their scathing looks and their

evil laughs. Those things don't come naturally, you know. He turned to me and he said,

write a logistics plan for assembling an army of robotic androids to take over downtown Detroit,

I wanted on my desk, Pronto.

The secret to being a good minion is realizing that just because you're low minion on the

totem pole, you can still take charge of the process to make yourself, and your boss, successful.

I rushed to my desk to block out time to work on the plan, and I didn't know when

Pronto was. He gave me the instructions on Thursday. Was Pronto later today? Was it Friday? Was it

next Tuesday? When you're given a task to do, make sure you know exactly when it's due, both the

date and the time. If your boss is planning to present the report to the Evil League of Evil at noon,

and you think it's due at 5 p.m., there could be serious consequences. As you have the time

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