Tuesday, July 21, 2009 Business
"Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. One man gets only a week's value out of a year while another man gets a full year's value out of a week."
— Charles Richards

Are You Spending Time the Right Way?

Are You Spending Time the Right Way?
Though most managers understand intellectually that time is their scarcest resource, few make the effort to gain a strategic perspective on how they spend their hours each week. Still fewer make a regular practice of keeping track of how the priorities they say are most important jibe with the way they actually spend their time. "Those we label natural born leaders know how to leverage their time," writes Warren Blank in The 108 Skills of Natural Born Leaders. For those in whom this talent is not innate,this article offers some pointers.

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Read "Time: A Mystery And A Problem" by Jacob Needleman for a thought-provoking passage on our relationship to time. Learn more

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