Time (Priority) Management - Part 2 (2025)

Manager Tools

Mike Auzenne

Management, Leadership, Strategy, Feedback, How-to, Skills, Advice, Development, Careers, Coaching, Business

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2006

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Time management is a fallacy. Time doesn't need you to "manage" it - it's been getting along just fine without you for billions of years. We can't manage time. What we CAN manage is what we do with that time. And yet, the overwhelming evidence is that professionals and managers do NOT "manage what they do with that time."

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0:00.0	Welcome to Career Tools.
0:02.3	This is Sarah.
0:03.8	And I'm Mark.
0:04.7	Today's podcast, Time Priority Management, Part 2 of 2.
0:10.7	This cast answers these questions.
0:13.5	How do I manage my time?
0:15.4	How do I make myself more efficient?
0:18.1	How can I manage my calendar?
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0:58.9	All right, Mark, we are going to do a time analysis.
1:02.3	If you don't keep a calendar or you don't have a schedule,
1:08.2	it's going to be really, really hard for us to give you guidance to help you through the rest of this cast.
1:11.5	If they don't keep a calendar, they don't need to listen to this. Yeah, exactly. Some of us don't. We have jobs that don't have calendars. I mean, you might work on a job site. You might do construction. You could do anything. But if you don't have a calendar that's ruling your life, it's going to be really hard to do the analysis that is required for this priority management. Now, having a reporting or measuring tool,
1:31.0	like a calendar for the most precious resource you have, is necessary for a business professional.
1:39.7	And we're assuming most of the people listening to this are business professionals.
1:43.6	Like, it's having not a calendar, your most precious resource being time, is like a surgeon not tracking
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