Time bandits can often come heavily disguised. They attack you when you least expect it, hold you up, tie you up and take your money. They waste your time and are an inconvenience that could easily be avoided. These bandits come in two major classes. | |
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
| Barking Dog is the ultimate metaphor for those who are working below their pay grade. Dogs bark, and it is a senseless, repetitive activity. It is what they do... one of the things they are bred to do. Barking represents all the low-level activities you do that could easily be done by somebody else at much lower cost. |  |
|
|
Read more...
|
|
The telephone is an interruptive device that allows people to invade your quiet time and insert their agenda ahead of yours. Phone calls have been a major Time bandit for the last 30 years at least, and while they have been joined and probably overtaken by e-mail, they remain a huge drain on executive productivity. | |
|
|
Read more...
|
|
E-mails have probably overtaken the telephone now as the most dangerously effective of all Time Bandits. When it was first introduced, e-mail represented a huge opportunity for improved communication. It is now reached the point where far from being a communication tool it is simply a bandit of huge proportions. |  |
|
|
Read more...
|
|
Most people’s days are full of things that other people could do just as well instead at a much lower cost. We take care of them because they are easy to do and we don’t have time to take a step back and delegate them. It is well worth the time it takes to eliminate them from your day….after all, why would you have a dog and bark yourself? | | | |
|
|
Read more...
|
|
|
|
