{"id":24046,"date":"2020-05-30T19:29:04","date_gmt":"2020-05-30T17:29:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gbcc.eu\/24046\/time-management-the-boss-approach\/"},"modified":"2022-04-07T23:32:30","modified_gmt":"2022-04-07T21:32:30","slug":"time-management-the-boss-approach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gbcc.eu\/en\/24046\/time-management-the-boss-approach\/","title":{"rendered":"Time management \u2013 the BOSS approach"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/span> 12<\/span> Min.<\/span><\/span>\n

Time management: problems arise because you put off important, but not urgent, issues. The B. O. S. S. approach treats the causes instead of the symptoms.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have been in business for over 30 years and the topic of time management has been with me for almost as long. It was one of the first training measures I received from my first employer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And over the years, as befitting of large corporate employers, I have met trainers who have been and are still regarded as proven experts in this field.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sure, the knowledge and tips and tricks they\u2019ve imparted to us as participants were quite useful. Yes, they really know how to “manage” time: they told us how much work they get done over the course of the day, how many meetings they\u2019ve successfully managed and completed, and much more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is it an attractive goal to “manage” time?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Putting up with an unpleasant investment phase to be rewarded with an attractive return on investment (ROI) at the end? Yes, I would always be enthusiastic about that, but the ROI that the experts presented to me, and thus implicitly held out the prospect of, was simply not “sexy”.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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This was because what bothered me was something else: I perceived the time-management experts as very rushed<\/em><\/span>. I experienced them as reacting<\/span> to the impulses hitting them from outside.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rushing from meeting to meeting, managing time, prioritising and working through to-do lists is supposed to be the solution? Terrifying!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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\u201eWhat will be different\/better if I am successful in terms of time management?<\/span>” My own associations with the topic of “time management” were always different, because whenever I asked myself this question, I tended to have the above image in my mind’s eye:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once I arrive at my destination, I am not rushed by external forces; I am the boss of my own time and am self-determined. I am not reacting but being proactive.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The birth of the B. O. S. S. approach<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

That being said, I could never really get excited about the topic of time management. It stayed that way until the beginning of May 2020, when I started writing a new compact eBook called \u201eWorking together productively \u2013 offline or online<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u201c. Over the course of preparing to write this book, I naturally researched what people were writing on this topic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As luck would have it, time management is one of the variables that come up when discussing productivity. That is why I have included a short chapter on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before that, I reviewed my own status quo for a given occasion. That was the birth of the B. O. S. S. approach, which I developed with the support of my wife, for lo and behold, I arrived long ago at my aforementioned goal<\/span>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet, I have implemented almost nothing of what is recommended in terms of time management. I don’t keep to-do and priority lists and yet I am very rarely under time pressure from outside. I am usually the boss of my own time and am self-determined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I already felt this way as an executive in a large corporation, as an SME managing director, and also today as a self-employed person:<\/p>\n\n\n\n