I'm Used To Being Productive, Ever Since

There Are People Who Literally Cannot Start A Project Until The Deadline Is Four Hours Away, Even If It's A Big One. And Those People Have A Serious Problem. My Recommendation Is Set Up Mini-deadlines. You Might Say, 'okay, Here's My Deadline After Three Days For This And There's Another Deadline For That And Then A Third Deadline.

If Employees Need To Stay Late In Order To Curry Favor With The Boss, What Motivation Do They Have To Get Work Done During Normal Business Hours? After All, They Can Put In The Requisite 'face Time' Whether They Are Surfing The Internet Or Analyzing Customer Data.

Priorities Are The Yearly Goals That I'm Most Interested In Achieving, Then They Become Operationalized Through Weekly Goals.

It's 5 P.m. At The Office. Working Fast, You've Finished Your Tasks For The Day And Want To Go Home. But None Of Your Colleagues Have Left Yet, So You Stay Another Hour Or Two, Surfing The Web And Reading Your E-mails Again, So You Don't Come Off As A Slacker. It's An Unfortunate Reality That Efficiency Often Goes Unrewarded In The Workplace.

From The Law Firm's Perspective, Billing By The Hour Has A Certain Appeal: It Shifts Risk From The Firm To The Client In Case The Work Takes Longer Than Expected. But From A Client's Perspective, It Doesn't Work So Well. It Gives Lawyers An Incentive To Overstaff And To Overresearch Cases.