Management Rules: 50 New Rules for Managers

CHAPTER 31

MANAGE TIME EFFICIENTLY

There are plenty of time management courses which will help you use time better. To help you save time by not going on them, here are the basics that you will learn on such a course.

1. Only handle each piece of paper, email or report once. You have four options with each one:

• Ditch it: throw it in the number one file – junk
• Delegate it: ask someone else to handle it
• Do it: take action yourself
• The last D is deadly: delay – this makes you look unprofessional, you waste time explaining the delay and life will have moved on without your input or influence.

2. Do it right first time. One of the biggest waste of management time and effort is re-work. You waste time doing the work again, and you waste more time defending ...