ABSTRACT
Most discussions of the executive’s task start with the advice to plan one’s work. This sounds eminently plausible. Effective executives do not start with their tasks. They start by finding out where their time actually goes. It includes three-step process: recording time; managing time; and consolidating time. Time is also a unique resource. Of the other major resources, money is actually quite plentiful. Relations with other knowledge workers are especially time-consuming. The knowledge worker must be focused on the results and performance goals of the entire organization to have any results and performance at all. The leisurely exchange is needed equally in a government agency and in a business, in a research lab and in an army staff. Without it, the knowledge people either lose enthusiasm or become time-servers, or they direct their energies toward their speciality and away from the opportunities and needs of the organization.
