An Idea A Day

MANAGING TIME GOOD, BETTER, BEST … ACCEPTABLE Patrick Forsyth

IT IS OFTEN the case that time management goes hand in hand with perfectionism. I would certainly not advocate that anyone adopts a shoddy approach to their work, whatever it may be. There is, however, a dichotomy here, one well summed up in a quotation from Robert Heimleur, who said (perhaps despairingly): “They didn’t want it good, they wanted it on Wednesday.” The fact is it takes time to achieve perfection, and in any case perfection may not always be strictly necessary. Things may need to be undertaken carefully, thoroughly, comprehensively, but we may not need to spend time ...