T I M E M A N A G E M E N T
Working figures for the preliminary budget meeting don’t need
to be carried out to ten places past the decimal point. To the near-
est thousand dollars is probably close enough, and more precise
calculations are in fact a waste of time, since the numbers will all
be changed later.
“Simplify, simplify,” Thoreau advised us.
You can’t flee to Walden Pond, but you can eliminate unneces-
sary tasks, delegate or swap others, and give each task an appro-
priate level of attention.
By managing your tasks, you’ll be expanding the amount of
time available to you.