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By Ramiro Rodrigues

 

We are experiencing a great contemporary paradox: In spite of state-of-the-art gadgets and collaborative communication tools, which should be streamlining and facilitating work, we feel increasingly burdened with more responsibilities and response requirements.

 

The clearest side effect is the epidemic feeling that we are always short of what we wish we could have read, produced or done.

 

Of course, the benefits that technology has brought us in recent decades are indisputable. The production of human knowledge has gained stratospheric scale. The world has become "flat"—economies are now deeply integrated, and long distances have been collapsed by hyperconnectivity. But this also means that a good share of the world's population can now compete for the same professional space as you and your company.

 

Perhaps this is why recurring publications about better management of time and its countless functions become the focus of attention for the most attentive visitors to bookstores.

 

When everything is urgent, in fact, nothing is. If everything has the same priority, there is no way for anything to stand out. Perhaps this is the central issue behind the stress so many people feel today. Once the urgency of demands is generalized, it becomes difficult to produce high-quality, timely results.

 

What’s the solution? Planning, planning and ... planning. Only a good deal of planning — structured and strategic — allows corporate and project leadership to stay focused on real priorities and meet the right attention needs of their teams.

 

For the individual, planning is also a personal survival tool for organizing and balancing work, personal and social demands.


Posted by Ramiro Rodrigues on: July 10, 2018 11:24 AM | Permalink

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Eduin Fernando Valdes Alvarado Project Manager| F y F Fabricamos Futuro Villavicencio, Meta, Colombia
Very interesting thanks

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Sante Delle-Vergini, PhD Senior Project Manager| Infosys Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
I don't see the urgency ;-)

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Alok Priyadarshi Project Manager| Tata Consulting Engineers Limited Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India
Thanks

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Alok Priyadarshi Project Manager| Tata Consulting Engineers Limited Jamshedpur, Jharkhand, India
Thanks

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Drew Craig Sr. Agile & Product Coach| Vanguard Philadelphia, Pa, United States
Absolutely - "When everything is urgent, in fact, nothing is", though, the irony :)

Thanks, Ramiro.

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Tamer Zeyad Sadiq Assistant Cost Manager| Turner & Townsend Riyadh, Ar Riyad, Saudi Arabia
Planning is top priority!!!!

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Cibin Thomas Reston, Va, United States
Caught my attention with that headline ;)

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Muthukrishnan Ramakrishnan Automation & Validation Engineer| Automation & Validation Solutions Taichung, Taichung, Taiwan
Interesting

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Michael Delaney Partner| Delaney Management LLC West Chester, Pa, United States
Interesting point

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Napat Sooksamran Project Manager| KASIKORN LINE Co., Ltd. Bangkok, Thailand
Thanks. That's interesting.

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Pier Luigi Calabria Project Manager| INFORM Institut für Operations Research und Management GmbH, Aachen, Germany Aachen, Germany
not sure if human beings can ever reach the perfect time management, we have a good quantity of instinct in our DNA, guess we need to accept this limitation even if trying to get the best out of every suggestion on how to plan better.

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Rami Kaibni
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Senior Projects Manager | Field & Marten Associates New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada
You make some very good points. I believe Time Management is the key.

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Sanjeev Kalra Faridabad, India
Nice article , thanks. Every thing is urgent due to lack of patience.

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Al Taylor I.T. Contractor| Independent Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
1. Celebrate the progress you make every day
2. Get your rewards from within

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RAJESH K L Project Manager, PMP| Bharat Electronics, Bengaluru, India Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Nice article

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DILEEP KUMAR RAROTH CEO| Anba Gulf , KSA Al Jubail ,, Saudi Arabia
Thanks for the keyword

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Ramón Merino Cuervo Program Manager| Canal de Isabel II Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Great: clear and simple. I'll send this article to my boss so he can remember to plan ... Thanks

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RAJESH K L Project Manager, PMP| Bharat Electronics, Bengaluru, India Bengaluru, Karnataka, India
Thanks for sharing.

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Adam Bakos Lead Airworthiness, Global 5/6 New Product Development| Bombardier Aviation Mississauga, Ontario, Canada
Thanks for the article.

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Manfred Kress Senior Project Manager, PMP| Atos Information Technology GmbH Taunusstein, Germany
Beside planning (and following the plan), discipline is an other key.
Discipline to read i.e. mails and answer them only at certain time slots.

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