Conference Room Without Seats -- Time Management

Some people think that there are three essential factors in managing objects: people, money and goods, because they are all resources.

People - human resources; material - material resources; money - how can we do anything without money?

In fact, time and information are also elements of management, and time and information are resources.

Schiller said, "there are three kinds of time: the future is coming late, now it is flying like an arrow, and the past is always standing still."

Jim Hays, President of the American Institute of management, said: "one person can learn to use more kinds of management tools more effectively so as to make himself more productive in the same amount of time."

The proverb of our country has made the most accurate conclusion about time: "one hour is worth a pound of gold, an inch of gold is hard to buy an inch of time."

In some cases, the gains from time resources are much larger and much more important than the gains from two sources of capital and labor.

Many enterprises in Japan attach great importance to time resources, such as meetings. They are most particular about meeting efficiency and never open useless meetings. Before each meeting, they put up the cost of this meeting in the conference room, how many people attend, how long they work, how much time they spend per hour, and finally accumulate them, so that the people who presided over the meeting and those who attend the meeting will have a good idea.

The conference rooms in Japan are not as comfortable as ours. They are very simple. They are smoke-free and tea free. They have no chairs. The people at the meeting are standing up to control the length of meetings, manage time resources and improve the efficiency of meetings.

Lai Fulin, chairman of a company in the United States, is a successful example in scientific management of time and resources.

He arrived at the office punctually at 6 o'clock every morning. He first read 15 minutes of management philosophy books, and then began to concentrate on five or six important tasks and the necessary measures and necessary systems in different stages of the year.

Next is to focus on one week's work.

He listed all the things he wanted to do in the week on the blackboard.

At about 8 o'clock, when he was in the restaurant with his secretary, he took these good things to the attention of the children of his employees, so as to reach the company's general principles and plans. Almost he thought that all important things should be discussed together, and then decided to be handled by the secretary.

Lai Fulin's time management method has greatly improved the efficiency of the company, and has attracted the attention and praise from American companies.

Donald C, a management scientist in the United States, puts forward the three principle of efficiency in his famous book "improving productivity", that is, when you deal with any work, you must ask yourself: can you cancel it?

Can you merge with other jobs?

Can we use simple things instead of it?

These three principles should be used for reference in our management time.