Chapter 44. Value Your Time
I once sat in a meeting, as a very junior manager, in which there was an interminable discussion going on about whether we should buy a particular piece of equipment that some people thought too pricey. I’d said what I had to say on the subject (as indeed had everyone, but some of them were saying it several times) so to pass the time I did a quick, back-of-the-envelope calculation of the combined hourly rate of everyone sitting round the table. I pretty much knew everyone’s salaries, so it would have been a fairly close estimate. The interesting thing was that the half hour we spent talking about this piece of equipment was nearly twice as costly as the thing itself.
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