Managing Time Like a Pro

• Not allowing enough time to complete your task: Add sufficient cushion time to complete every step of the project. 
• Assuming that everything will work out all right: Assume that you are going to have problems and schedule sufficient time and resources to solve those problems.
• Rushing at the end: You almost invariably will make mistakes and do poor quality work that you'll have to go back and correct later. 
• Trying to do several things at once: You end up doing nothing well. 

• "A” items are most important: the things that you must do.
• "B” items only have minor consequences: tasks that you should do, but they only have mild consequences.
• “C” tasks have no consequences: they have no effect at all on your work life.
• “D” for delegate: the things that you can delegate to someone else.
• “E” for eliminate: the things you should eliminate altogether.

Many managers and even entire organizations perceive employees who spend more time working at the desk, coming early and leaving late from work, as sincere, dependable and hard-working.

Managers expect workers to show their face in ‘work-mode’ at the desk, using the principle of hour-based productivity. This observational activity of managers ‘clocking’ their employee’s desk time, no matter what the level of productivity is, is called Passive Face-Time.