Becoming a Manager

3Making the Most of Your Time

Learning Objectives

By the end of the chapter you should be able to:

• Document how you currently allocate your time.

• Prioritize your work in terms of key goals.

• Be organized and efficient.

• Identify and eliminate time-wasters in your workday.

• Delegate effectively.

So much to do. So little time. Time may be the manager’s most critical yet beleaguered asset. As scholar Henry Mintzberg has told us (Mintzberg, 1990), managers work at an unrelenting pace. Their activities are characterized by brevity, variety, and discontinuity. They are, indeed, pulled from one direction to another, distracted by unanticipated ...