How to Schedule Time for Meaningful Work
HBR IdeaCast • 2 August 2013
“Working smarter. Productivity experts Julian Birkinshaw and Jordan Cohen discuss ways that knowledge workers can streamline some non-essential activities to carve out time for more important matters. Their study of 45 companies revealed that with just a little coaching, most knowledge workers were able to free up about eight hours a week by delegating, eliminating or outsourcing functions. The extra time was then used for closer one-on-one mentoring with less-skilled subordinates that helped raise overall productivity. Read on for the four diagnostic questions you should be asking about every meeting scheduled and e-mail stream received.”
Work doesn’t get any more meaningful than what we do in libraries… how do we plan our time to invest in the highest impact activities and less in the busy’ness and administrivia?
Stephen
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