The One Third-Planning Rule - Part 1

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Mike Auzenne

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🗓️ 6 June 2011

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

This guidance explains the One-Third Planning Rule: when assessing and assigning work to your team, never take more than 1/3 of the available time to do so.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Manager Tools. Today's show The One Third Planning loved. I loved sitting in my office. You know, it's probably
0:27.4	five o'clock on a Friday evening, and I've only got like maybe three or four hours before
0:32.4	the work to do. Right, right. My boss. I've only got like maybe three or four hours before I go.
0:33.0	Right, right?
0:34.0	My boss hands me something to do.
0:38.0	That's due Monday morning.
0:40.0	Yeah.
0:41.0	And he had it it the last week.
0:43.0	All of a sudden, his lack of planning is now my crisis.
0:47.0	Right.
0:48.0	Yeah, this happens all the time on Wall Street.
0:50.0	We hear that all the time.
0:52.0	Manate and directors hold on a stuff for the last minute,
0:54.0	because they know they can't get your time, so yeah,
0:56.0	we'll wait until last minute,
0:58.0	and then by definition it's urgent,
0:59.0	so you have to do what I want you to do.
1:01.0	Yeah, and then he tells me of course,
1:03.2	well, I gave it to the last movie
1:05.0	because I just been really struggling
1:06.4	with this for the last week.
1:07.6	Yeah, yeah.
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