time management

byJunkexchange

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10 years ago

How do you manage your day, working a full time job or a company you have been building for a decade? Push, pull, go this way, then that way. Might have been in Think and Grow Rich or another book I read way back in my career, but one of the stories was about Charles Schwab, president of Bethlehem Steel, and Ivy Lee, a time management expert of the time - 100 years ago. Lee offered to provide training for Schwab, his management and sales people - about 15 minutes. When asked what the cost would be, Lee told him to use the plan for 3 months and pay him what he thought it was worth to him and his company. Lee received a check for $25,000.

Basically, it was make a list at the end of your day for tomorrow. List 6 things that are the most important to get done, in the order of most importance. Work on the first one, until you get it done. When it is done, re-assess the remaining 5, plus 1. Work on that number 1 until it is done. Repeat.

That advice in today's dollars was over a half million.

Something to think about.