Re: Re: Sticking point

So said  Bill Walton  on  2002-12-13 --------------------

>Ron Jeffries wrote:
>
>
>> On Thursday, December 12, 2002, at 8:40:01 PM, Bill Walton wrote:
>>
>> >> > My boss has even less time and his boss has zero free time
>> >>
>> >> It's kind of scary that people with so much responsibility are so
>> >> little able to manage their time efficiently.
>>
>> > Perhaps you meant to ask / learn how much responsibility people like
>his
>> > boss are routinely expected to handle.  Perhaps you were trying to gain
>an
>> > understanding of the pressures the business-side operates under.
>Perhaps.
>> > I couldn't tell for sure.
>>
>> Perhaps you didn't mean to imply that executives work harder, smarter, or
>under
>> more pressure than other people. I hope not, because there is no evidence
>that
>> it's true.
>
>No I didn't mean to imply.  I cannot find anything in my words that helps
>me
>understand why you pose the question.  Glen's comments were about how long
>his boss and his boss' boss work.  Not how hard.  The response implied the
>problem was their inability to do effective time management.  I doubt
>that's
>the case.  My exposure / experience matches closely with Glen's and tells
>me
>that's not the problem.  Rather than jump in with that, I posed a comment
>that I hoped would encourage an information exchange that might, in turn,
>foster an increased understanding.  Care to help me understand where you're
>coming from?

I'll jump in and say that there's another interpretation to "better able" in this context. These high-level folks are pushed so much that they're not *permitted* to manage their time -- someone perceives that they don't have time even to plan, leading them down the spiral to an early grave from stress.

J. B. Rainsberger,
President, Diaspar Software Services
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