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Defeating the Clockwatching Game
Your rivals and managers in the office are playing a clockwatching game with you. Among their tools are: Email timestamps. Parking lot spots. People witnessing you walking in and walking out with your bags. Instant messages peppered through lunch hours. … Continue reading
Political Overtime
New business analysts. Tight timelines. Sensitive business periods… Halfway through the project, one of the “customers” decides to pay attention during a review of minor specification update. Interestingly enough, the customer doesn’t pay attention to the relatively minor changes that … Continue reading
40 Non-Billable Billable Hours
clock from Crestock Stock Photo I understand that many professions have billable hours. Â Lawyers, accountants, and consultants in general need a way of quantifying slices of time in order to request payment from their many clients. If you’re part of … Continue reading
Your supposed “80 hour week” this week says something to me.
What it says to me is that you, perhaps, don’t know what you’re doing. As Jason Fried of 37Signals suggests, Fire the workaholics. I’m worried about the clean-up effort that will result from your hard work.