Welcome to the Manager Tools podcast for Monday, May 22, 2006.

Hi, this is Michael Lozanne.

On behalf of my partner, Mark Horstman and I, welcome to Manager Tools.

Today, we cover the second and two podcast on time management.

If you're new to the show or you didn't listen to last week's podcast, it's probably

worthwhile going back and listening to it first.

Otherwise, you'll be joining the conversation halfway through and wondering just how we got to this point.

To that point, I received some good feedback on last week's show.

First, some folks were put off by the fact that the series was cut in two.

Someone much preferred to have a self-contained podcast that doesn't span multiple shows, i.e. one show, one topic.

Well, Mark and I appreciate that point of view and generally full heartily agree.

We also tend to let the content dictate the length of the show, and occasionally the length

exceeds the 30 to 40 minutes show we shoot for. Well, honestly, we want to do a 30-minute show,

but almost always fail, so we'll give ourselves a little slack and say the target is 30 to 40 minutes.

In any case, when we do significantly exceed the 30-minute window, we break those long ones

into multiple parts.

Time management was an example of that.

Now that leads me to my second piece of feedback we received, and here I'll have to strongly

agree.

When the topic is split across multiple shows, identifying that fact up front would avoid

the surprise

at the end when the show abruptly ends without conclusion.

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