An executive can improve their awareness of how time is spent by focusing on three key points: Time-monitoring, Control time, and Consolidate time. Time-monitoring involves recording the amount of time spent on particular tasks and projects, which makes it easy to see where all that time is going. Control time involves asking what activities are necessary, what tasks are inefficient, and similar questions, which helps to find chunks of time that are wasted. Consolidate time involves revamping activities or eliminating them altogether if they are found to be inefficient.
For executives, the job is not simply to ensure that “things get done;” it’s to ensure the right thi...
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