The Manager's Pocket Guide to Leadership Skills

There are two facts we know about time. First, there are exactly 24 hours or 1,440 minutes in every day. That amounts to 168 hours in a week and 8,760 hours in a year. Second, we all have the same amount of time. So the question is not one of where do you find more time. You cannot do it. The real question we need to be asking is how do we manage the things that we do in the 168 hours that are available in the week.

The following is a typical breakdown of how activities may consume our time:

Time at work (9 hours per day)	45
Travel to work (1 hour per day)	5
Eating meals (2 hours per day)	14
Sleeping (7 hours per day)	49
Bathing and dressing (1 hour per day)	7
Total	120

What this means is that we have 48 hours to spend on other ...