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Every month, I produce a "time usage" pie chart for one of my managers for the month. At one point, he said: "You need to spend less time in meetings." So I t
by steven777400 13y ago
Every month, I produce a "time usage" pie chart for one of my managers for the month. At one point, he said: "You need to spend less time in meetings."
So I told him I'd be happy to oblige if he wouldn't schedule me in as many. He was shocked and said most of the meetings must be from my other manager (who's a real hands-off kind of guy). So I broke out the details and showed him that the vast, vast majority of my "meetings" time was scheduled by him.
He didn't bring it up again, but also continued to schedule me in as many meetings as before... So I guess that's a decision. :)
- brudgers 13y agoObviously, he wouldn't schedule a meeting if he didn't think it was important. I suspect there is a correlation between managers who believe their meetings are important and managers who believe that an hourly breakdown of a direct report's work tasks is a more meaningful metric than the direct report's work output.