Time management is possibly the easiest part, for me. You end up putting it on your calendar and the calendar will take care of it for you. The hardest part th

Time management is possibly the easiest part, for me. You end up putting it on your calendar and the calendar will take care of it for you. The hardest part that I had to learn as an EM was how to identify ways to be effective with small blocks of time, safeguarding my energy, and making sure I (and my team) were working on the most important things. There are a fair number of considerations for productivity. I wrote about this a few weeks back ( https://www.ebiester.com/productivity/2022/12/14/lego-blocks-of-productivity.html https://www.ebiester.com/productivity/2022/12/14/lego-blocks... ) but these are the factors to consider: * Time management - How do I organize my day? * Activity management - What are the right things to work on? * Capacity management - How many things can I plan at once? * Project management - How do I break down my tasks into manageable sizes? * Task management - How do I focus on an individual task, and what do I do with them? * Energy management: How do I use my most productive time for the valuable things, and how do I make sure I don’t overextend myself? * Knowledge management: How do I organize what I’ve learned so that I don’t lose time to trying to search for it in complex projects? * Habit management -how do I stay on track with the habits I want to adopt or have adopted? * Vision/goal management - what is my north star? What am I working toward and how do I get there? There are a lot of people who have written about these topics individually. I think the important part is to identify what you need, and dive into those topics in particular as you build your productivity system.