How many of these 20 time-wasters are part of your day?
December 27, 2006 by Tris Hussey
Filed under Jobs
Ian Mackenize is going a series on the top 20 time wasters at work. How many of these are on your list? Which of these are the worst for you? Me, it’s 4, 7, 9, 10, and 15. Sometimes I just sit here spinning my wheels and think, maybe I’ll read my feeds again or what’s hot on Techmeme or TailRank. Usually I just need to close the IM windows, get the posts ready to write, and plow through them (kinda like right now). So take a look at the list and …
- Management by Crisis
- Telephone Interruptions
- Inadequate Planning
- Attempting Too Much
- Drop-in Visitors
- Ineffective Delegation
- Personal Disorganization
- Lack of Self Discipline
- Inability to Say “No”
- Procrastination
- Meetings
- Paper Work
- Unfinished Tasks
- Inadequate Staff
- Socializing
- Confused Authority
- Poor Communication
- Inadequate Controls
- Incomplete Information
- Travel
Let’s all try to read the series …
Tags: GTD, time wasters
Hmmm…
Lemme see…
I’d say almost all of these on the list affect my productivity. Now, the interesting thing is that No. 14 affects my work in multiple ways. Indequate staffing due to various reasons means increased workload at my workplace thereby increased stress levels. This affects productivity too.
No matter how hard I try, managing teams with inadequate resources seems tough to me. Then again, someone has to do it.
However, I’d say No. 1, 4, 5, 9, 14 are the biggest hurdles that affect my productivity at work. I’m trying hard to be more efficient and thus remove No. 4, but somehow everyone wants me to solve their problems. It gets tough once people start expecting things out of you at work and that are not a part of your current role.
Oh, don’t get me started about #8 and #10. :lol: