{"id":4597,"date":"2021-05-20T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-20T17:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/?p=4597"},"modified":"2021-05-07T15:17:46","modified_gmt":"2021-05-07T22:17:46","slug":"your-time-is-a-resource-as-valuable-as-your-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/berkonomics.com\/?p=4597","title":{"rendered":"Your time is as valuable as your money."},"content":{"rendered":"

Enterprise time as a measurable commodity.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Let\u2019s examine the challenges to a CEO in making use of enterprise time, one of your most valuable and often misused assets.\u00a0 Enterprise time, as opposed to personal time management, is the sum total of resources available to a company expressed in terms of time \u2013 time to develop, to debug, to produce, to deploy, to respond to issues, and to make changes in plans that are not working.<\/p>\n

The relationship between time and money<\/strong><\/p>\n

By reducing the amount of time to perform any of these actions, a company saves fixed\"\" overhead and increases profit or reduces cash burn.\u00a0 So, this issue becomes one to be dealt with by every manager at every level of your organization.\u00a0 Building efficiency into every corporate activity should be a corporate mandate, one to be discussed interdepartmentally, to be refereed by the CEO.<\/p>\n

The flip side of efficient time management<\/strong><\/p>\n

There is the flip side to making efficient use of time.\u00a0 I\u2019ve labeled this time bankruptcy<\/em> to make the point as dramatically as possible that this is a critical, company-threatening sinkhole that must be avoided at all costs.<\/p>\n

Time bankruptcy<\/em> is the ultimate result of the deliberate over-commitment of a company\u2019s most valuable resource(s) by the CEO or a department leader.\u00a0 There are many ways to fall into this trap.\u00a0 But first, \u00a0identify what those critical resources are in your company.\u00a0 Most often it is the time of the chief architect of the product or service you provide, or of the best developers of that product. Sometimes it is the time of the CEO, which when overcommitted, prevents others from gaining access to solve critical problems or continue the flow of production.<\/p>\n

An easy way to fall into time bankruptcy.<\/strong><\/p>\n

[Email readers, continue here…]\u00a0<\/em> <\/span>\u00a0 One way to fall into the time bankruptcy trap is to release a product too early and pay the price by forcing the architect and most skilled developers to drop off their important tasks to put out fires in the field and fix problems one at a time.<\/p>\n

And yet another way to make that mistake<\/strong><\/p>\n

Another is to fail to complete a contracted service for one customer and to do so multiple times, until many customers begin screaming for attention, drawing away all available talent from new, income earning tasks.<\/p>\n

Now let\u2019s make this personal to you.<\/strong><\/p>\n

You will surely be able to identify an example of time bankruptcy that you have \"\"experienced in your past or present.\u00a0 It is your job to drive the company out of the time bankruptcy zone and to watch for signs of it occurring in the future, stopping the process before it becomes critical.\u00a0 That means watching quality control efforts more carefully, developing metrics to track incomplete processes and track remaining time committed to completion, watching the number of customers exposed to a new product or service before general release, and more.<\/p>\n

Again, it\u2019s about you at the center of this firestorm.<\/strong><\/p>\n

It also means being careful that you do not become overloaded to the extent that you are unavailable or inefficient in helping those who need your attention to complete their tasks.\u00a0 Use the term, time bankruptcy<\/em>, in a planning session, and see what response you get from your managers and employees.\u00a0 You\u2019ll be surprised at their understanding of the issue as it relates to their being able to complete their tasks successfully and of their contributions to solutions that will benefit everyone and increase process efficiencies.<\/p>\n

Relate enterprise time to available cash runway.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Finally, enterprise time equates to available runway, or remaining cash and resources that you can call upon to gain market share and increase corporate value. Spending enterprise time inefficiently burns those resources unnecessarily.\u00a0 If you have enough reserves in cash and in time, you can dig out of the hole.\u00a0 But if you are managing a marginal business, the effective use of time as a resource extends your ability to make changes, reposition, react and build.<\/p>\n

So, if you wonder why we focus on this subject to the extent of seeming redundant, well then, it\u2019s about time.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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