Time cannot be managed. Tasks can.
Whenever we install a new PD at a client station, I share four techniques I myself have found darn helpful over my own years of dancing-as-fast-as-I-could in several over-tasked management positions.
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Super piece, Holland!
Reblogged this on ritarich and commented:
What can I say that he hasn’t already said? Now—the trick is, what can I do?!?