Making it Big in Software: Get the Job. Work the Org. Become Great

Chapter 12. Time Management

“Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?”

—Edgar Bergen (1903–1978)

If you read only one chapter in this book, this should probably be the one. Organizing your time at work means organizing what you produce and how you develop as a professional. No other skill will help propel your career forward as much as this because it’s the skill that leads to all other skills. I’ve seen employees get fired or repositioned to the most hideously unpleasant positions because they had such poor time management skills that they found it impossible to be productive for more than three hours a day. Other high-performing employees get stalled in their careers at the “career journeyman” level (a position that has different ...