Managers—Once Every Week or So, You Need to Schedule Time to Think

I know being a manager is overwhelming because I’ve been in your shoes. I’ve been managing teams and training managers for the past decade. For managers, the work is constant: meetings, 1-on-1s, performance reviews, nonstop emails, Slack messages, questions from team members, etc. There’s so much going on at any given time that it’s easy to think your job as a manager is to crank out work. After all, many companies implicitly reward that type of behavior by applauding the people who work weekends, send emails at 11 p.m., and constantly seem “busy.” But as IBM founder Thomas Watson once said, “Being busy doesn’t make a company grow; thinking about how to do things better does.” If you’ve modeled your career to be the person who’s known for responding to unimportant messages within seconds, I hate to break it to you… That won’t actually help you get ahead. It may make you feel better about yourself, and yes — it may even help you “look good” in front of the boss for a little while. But busyness doesn’t build careers. Achievement does. <a href="https://betterhumans.pub/managers-once-every-week-or-so-you-need-to-schedule-time-to-think-4765701ca723">Visit Now</a>