If you are interrupted too often, figure out why. Are you:

• Too slow to close your door, forward your phone, and turn off email?
• Withholding information from others?
• Failing to develop and empower others?
• Inserting yourself into too many processes?
• Insisting on perfection?
• Discouraging the decisions and initiative of others?
• Unclear in establishing objectives and priorities?
• Sloppy in delegation?
• Letting others interrupt repeatedly without thinking first?
• Unsure of your own priorities?
• Biting off more than you can chew?
• Afraid you may be extraneous?

You are not indispensable. So why are others acting as if you are? What are you doing to cause your own interruptions?