How do you see an ambiguous concept?
When you hear “time management” do you picture an outlook calendar? A day planner? An analog clock?
When you hear “management” do you think of a boss in a starcheed shirt, with a stopwatch and a clipboard and a stern face doing time-in-motion trials? Do you imagine “The Bobs” asking “So what would you say you do here exactly?”
For only four letters’ difference, the pictures wer carry around for “management” and “time management” are worlds apart. Which is too bad because I’m starting to think they’re different names for the same thing.
Whichever way you want to slice it rhetorically, everyone needs to know how to:
- Think carefully about what work is approporiate for one self to do
- Prioritize how we use the time that’s left for working
- How best to communicate with others about the work we do for them and they do for us
- Focus and respect others’ focus
- Live the fulfiling lives the work is all for in the first place
As far as I can tell, both management and time management require all 5 of those. Let’s master them.
