One thing after another — 6 steps to better time management

Your biggest cost is your time. It is a definite amount of minutes, a non-negociable ressource: 52.1775 weeks in a year, 7 days in a week: 168 hours or 10080 minutes.

“When you switch away from a primary task to do something else, you’re increasing the time it takes to finish that task by an average of 25 per cent.” (hbr.org/[…]/the-magic-of-doing-one-thing)

Here are 6 recommendations I found the most efficient for better time management:

1. Maintain meeting discipline

• Being in the meeting: http://www.businessinsider.com/10-etiquette-rules-for-meetings[...]
• Running the meeting: https://www.manager-tools.com/2010/08/effective-meetings[...]

1. Stop demanding or expecting instant responsiveness at every moment of the day
2. Encourage breaks (http://hbr.org/2007/10/manage-your-energy-not-your-time[...])
3. Do the most important thing first in the morning
4. Establish regular, scheduled times to think more long term, creatively, or strategically
5. Take real and regular vacations. http://www.cnbc.com/id/43136927

[Originally published on this blog 2014–12–22]