PERFECTING THE ART OF WASTING TIME AT WORK
Writing in his column THE HUMAN FACTOR in the Business Standard, January 22, 2010, Shyamal Majumdar rightly announces, Managers of the world seem to be united in their passion for wasting time at work. According to the Late Sumantra Ghoshal a whopping 90 per cent of managers waste their time by procrastinating, becoming emotionally detached, and distracting themselves with supposedly busy work. Some examples of how many things “busy” people are doing that will never be missed. · just stare at just about anything so that people around them think that they are pondering something intense. · schedule meetings just to tell juniors to “work smarter, not harder” and to “think out of the box” etc. · send emails and call up people to find out about things that would have got done anyway without their intervention · ...