Time Management is An Organization’s Responsibility, Not Just An Individual’s

Excerpted from a McKinsey article “Making time management the organization’s priority”, January 2013 by Frankki Bevins and Aaron De Smet

Leaders,  who want their organizations to be successful, must stop thinking about time management as primarily an individual problem and start addressing it institutionally. Time management isn’t just a personal-productivity issue over which companies have no control; it has increasingly become an organizational issue whose root causes are deeply embedded in corporate structures and cultures.

The problem can be tackled systematically. Senior teams can create time budgets and formal processes for allocating their time. Leaders can pay more attention to time when they address organizational-design matters such as spans of control, roles, and decision rights. Companies can ensure that individual leaders have the tools and incentives to manage their time effectively. And they can provide institutional support, including best-in-class administrative assistance—a frequent casualty of recent cost-cutting efforts.

See the full McKinsey Article – https://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/Making_time_management_the_organizations_priority_3048