How to Schedule Time for Meaningful Work

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🗓️ 2 August 2013

⏱️ 16 minutes

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Julian Birkinshaw and Jordan Cohen, coauthors of the HBR article "Make Time for the Work that Matters."

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0:00.0	If you work with early career professionals, my colleagues at
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0:08.4	Young Professional's Guide to Building a Meaningful Career on your own terms.
0:11.9	Share New Here with the Young Professionals in your life. a meaningful career on your own terms.
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0:15.9	Listen for free wherever you got your podcasts.
0:18.6	Just search new here. Welcome to the HBR Idea Cast from Harvard Business Review.
0:33.0	I'm Sarah Green.
0:34.5	Today I'm talking with London Business School Professor Julian
0:37.3	Birkenshaw and with Jordan Cohen,
0:39.4	a productivity expert with PA consulting.
0:41.7	He is also a frequent contributor to HBR.org.
0:44.3	Together they're the co-authors of the HBR article Make Time for the Work that Matters.
0:49.6	Gentlemen, thanks both of you for joining us today.
0:52.4	Thank you, Sarah both of you for joining us today.
0:52.7	Thank you, Sarah.
0:53.7	Thank you.
0:54.7	So in order to figure out how knowledge workers
0:57.1	could make more time for the important projects
0:59.2	that never seem to get enough attention,
1:01.0	you both started out by observing how they spend their time normally in the
1:05.1	normal course of the day. What did you find? How are we all spending our time?
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